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Biobanks and bioethics: the politics of legitimation

2005-08-01

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Taking Biobank UK as its centrepiece, this paper analyses the politics of legitimation accompanying the emergence of population-based genetic databases and the contribution of bioethics to the power play therein. First, it explores the nature of the legitimation problem experienced by biotechnology and considers the extent to which bioethics can be regarded as an epistemic community capable of responding to that p...

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Literature Corpus work: 87747cf1-3dba-50d9-b287-38107f970187
DOI: 10.1080/13501760500160623

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