Journal article
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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1111/hex.12376
- Publication website:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hex.12376/abstract
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+ National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre Programme
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Boylan, A
Bibliographic Details
- 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
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- English
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- 2015-05-12
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