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By Robert F. Weir and Robert S. Olick, with Jeffrey C. Murray. 339 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2004. $46.50. ISBN 0-19-512368-9.

During the past decade, national, regional, and international organizations and advisory bodies, bioethicists, patient advocates, and biomedical researchers have examined the legal, ethical, and social implications of collecting, storing, and conducting research with human-tissue samples. In The Stored Tissue Issue, Weir and Olick assess the ongoing debates about and controversy over the need for and specificity of informed consent; the privacy, confidentiality, and ownership issues related to samples and the genetic information derived from them; and the extent to which commercial profits should be shared with persons and communities that give their genetic material to researchers.

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