Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom
(2011)
Book Chapter
Kent, J., & ter Meulen, R. (2011). Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom. In C. Lenk, J. Sándor, & B. Gordijn (Eds.), Biobanks and Tissue Research (17-35). Netherlands: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1673-5_2
A primary purpose of regulation is to secure public trust. In the United Kingdom in the 1990s public trust in those who procured, stored and used human tissues for research or other purposes was severely damaged following controversies about the rete... Read More about Public trust and public bodies: The regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom.