By Simon Caldwell
Last updated at 11:09 AM on 09th December 2009
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D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Executive Director
June 2009
Privacy and research are two major concerns in discussions of biobanks. They are important in another arena as well. Whenever we are patients in a medical office or a hospital, medical records are created. Whenever we have blood, other body fluids, or tissue taken, the remnants after testing are usually stored. Neither of these facts constitutes news. Novel uses of such information and samples, however, is a newsworthy subject, even if it is seldom read in the popular press.
In 1996, the US Congress made a law, the goal of which was to protect ...read more
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Peter A. Lawler, Ph.D., is Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College, in Georgia, and a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.
D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A., is Executive Director of The Tennessee Center for Bioethics & Culture.
Riley: The subject is organ transplantation, and we have looked at the situation in the United States. Now let’s go beyond the borders of the US. There is certainly a market in a number of countries, one of which is India. There, often a donor (for lack of a ...read more
A Conversation with Peter A. Lawler (Part II) Read More »
An Interview by D. Joy Riley, M.D., M.A.
Dr. Peter A. Lawler, Ph.D., is Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College, in Georgia, and a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics
D. Joy Riley: Today’s subject is organ transplantation. There are tens of thousands of people on the list in the United States, needing organ transplantation. This is an area of interest for you, I understand.
Peter A. Lawler: This is a tough issue. There are two ways of dealing with this: dialysis or transplantation. Dialysis is a horrible way to ...read more
A Conversation with Peter A. Lawler (Part I) Read More »
