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Laboratory Specimens and Genetic Privacy: Evolution of Legal Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Michelle Huckaby Lewis
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Human biological tissue samples are an invaluable resource for biomedical research designed to find causes of diseases and their treatments. Controversy has arisen, however, when research has been conducted with laboratory specimens either without the consent of the source of the specimen or when the research conducted with the specimen has expanded beyond the scope of the original consent agreement. Moreover, disputes have arisen regarding which party, the researcher or the source of the specimen, has control over who may use the specimens and for what purposes. The purposes of this article are: (1) to summarize the most important litigation regarding the use of laboratory specimens, and (2) to demonstrate how legal theory regarding control of laboratory specimens has evolved from arguments based upon property interests in biological samples to claims that the origins of laboratory specimens have privacy interests in their genetic information that should be protected.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 41 , Issue S1 , Spring 2013 , pp. 65 - 68
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2013

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