Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues Pertaining to Solid Organ Procurement

Ethical, legal, and policy issues: dominating the biospecimen discussion.

With over 300 million human specimens currently stored in the United States, biospecimens are invaluable to the scientific research community. In addition to technical considerations related to the physical quality of a biospecimen, multiple ethical, legal, and policy issues also affect the ability of researchers to use these resources. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Best Practices for Bio...

Legal and ethical issues relating to AIDS.

The worldwide AIDS epidemic has posed an extraordinary array of ethical and legal challenges. The work presented here reviews three issues at the heart of the matter: discrimination against HIV-infected people, the limits of confidentiality, and the exercise of coercive government powers to limit spread of the disease. Because the authors are most familiar with the U.S. experience, the review d...

Nanotechnology: legal and ethical issues

K E Y W O R D S nanotechnology, regulation, risk, ethical issues DOI: 10.1515/emj-2016-0005 Corresponding author: Agnieszka Baran Bialystok University of Technology Faculty of Management e-mail: [email protected] received: 19 January, 2016 accepted: 29 February, 2016

Legal Issues Pertaining to the Use of Cell Phone Data

This paper examines the principal legal issues related to the use of cell phone data as evidence at trial and to establish a basis for obtaining wiretap orders or call detail records from service providers. Four scenarios are considered. The first three scenarios explore evidentiary issues related to data extracted from damaged SIM cards, partial data recovered from memory chips and deleted dat...

ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Legal and ethical issues in fetal surgery