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Biosamples as gifts? How participants in biobanking projects talk about donation

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Background In the UK, altruism has featured explicitly as an underpinning principle for biobanking. However, conceptualising donation as altruistic downplays the role of reciprocity and personal or family benefit. Objective To investigate how biosample donors talk about their donation, and whether they regard samples as ‘gifts’. Methods In this qualitative study, twenty-one people, both healthy volunteers and people with health conditions, who had been invited to give biosamples took pa...

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University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Primary Care Health Sciences
Role:
Author
Publisher:
John Wiley & Sons Ltd Publisher's website
Journal:
Health Expectations
Publication date:
2015-06-12
Acceptance date:
2015-05-12
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1369-7625
Language:
English
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Deposit date:
2015-05-12

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