1st Edition

Biobanking Ethics and Regulation in East Asia Lessons from Malaysia

118 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Malaysia's biobanking landscape, examining the complex intersection of ethics, law, and culture in a rapidly developing healthcare research environment. Adopting a case-based methodology, this book presents realistic scenarios that mirror dilemmas faced by ethics committees, researchers, and policymakers. Each chapter begins with a hypothetical case... Read more

Preface

Purpose and Scope

 

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Informed Consent in Biobanking

Chapter 3: Privacy and Confidentiality in Biobanking

Chapter 4: The Commercialisation of Biobanks

Chapter 5: Incidental Findings in Biobanking

Chapter 6: International Data Sharing and Cross-Border Collaboration

Chapter 7: Concluding Thoughts: Towards Relational and Responsible Biobank Governance in Malaysia

 

Biography

Mohammad Firdaus Bin Abdul Aziz is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Malaya. He obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford. Currently, he is a co-investigator on a UK Wellcome Trust-funded initiative aimed at establishing a bioethics network in Southeast Asia and a co-investigator on the US NIH Fogarty grant, which focuses on developing a master’s program in health research ethics at Universiti Malaya.