Human genetic biobanks in Asia
Subtitle: politics of trust and scientific advancement
By: edited by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner.
Contributors: Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret, 1961-
Series: Routledge contemporary Asia series -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780710313416
Subjects: Human gene libraries -- Asia; Biobanks -- Asia; Human genetics -- Government policy -- Asia; Biological Specimen Banks -- ethics -- Asia; Biological Specimen Banks -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Asia; Cultural Characteristics -- Asia; Databases, Nucleic Acid -- ethics -- Asia; Databases, Nucleic Acid -- legislation & jurisprudence -- Asia; Socioeconomic Factors -- Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Human genetic biobanking in Asia : issues of trust, wealth, and ambition / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner; title: Public trust, commercialisation, and benefit sharing : towards a trustworthy biobank in Taiwan / Hung-En Liu and Terence Hua Tai; title: Biobanks in Japan : ethics, guidelines, and practice / Gerard Porter; title: Trust and the creation of biobanks : biobanking in Japan and the UK / Tohru Masui; title: Should we invest in biobanking in Hong Kong? : using biobanking for dyslexic studies in Hong Kong as an example / Mary Miu Yee Waye and Connie Ho; title: Collecting families : an institutional approach to human genetic biobanking in Indonesia / Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner; title: India's preparedness in tackling biopiracy and biobanking : still miles to go / Nandini K. Kumar; title: The Indian genomic biobank initiative and emerging bioethical issues : a community-based perspective / Prasanna Kumar Patra and Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner; title: Within borders : risks and the development of biobanking in China / Wen-Ching Sung; title: Bioethical regulation and human genetic databases in mainland China : a national survey among scientists and regulators on consent issues and benefit-sharing / Xinqing Zhang.