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Research in the Biotech Age: Can Informational Privacy Compete?
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Peekhaus, Wilhelm – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2008
This article examines the privacy of personal medical information in the health research context. Arguing that biomedical research in Canada has been caught up in the government's broader neoliberal policy agenda that has positioned biotechnology as a strategic driver of economic growth, the author discusses the tension between informational…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Medical Research, Privacy, Biotechnology