Aims: To ascertain the attitudes towards the use of existing diagnostic and research
samples, the setting up of a national biobank, and different types of informed consent among …

According to surveys and opinion polls, citizens in Nordic welfare societies have positive,
supportive attitudes towards medical research and biobanking. In Finland, it was expected …

This article poses the question of whether biobanking practices and standards are giving
rise to the construction of populations from which various biobanking initiatives increasingly …

Traditionally the analysis of biomedical discourses surrounding biobanking has focused on
the role of donation and gift giving as central aspects related to the procurement and use of …

Recent trends in biobanking indicate that the practices associated with the collection and
use of human tissue samples and related health information are increasingly becoming …

The purpose of the research was to study Finnish people's attitudes towards biomedical
research and whether the research sponsor makes a difference to those attitudes. A survey …

Table 6. Role of people interviewed. 52 Table 7. Field of people interviewed. 52 Table 8.
Four categories of responsibility and their relation to the two social dimensions of …

Anthropological and sociological studies of organ transplantation practices have pointed to
the ambiguities that are created by the use of deceased donors for organ procurement …

In 2012 a new biobanking law came into effect in Finland which, according to some, is one
of the most comprehensive and broad national biobanking legislations in the world to date …

Iäkkäiden määrän lisääntyminen luo yhteiskunnalle monenlaisia haasteita. Iäkkäiden
toimintakykyä ja kotona pärjäämistä tukemalla on kuitenkin mahdollista kohtuullistaa …