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The regulation of health data sharing in Africa: a comparative study. 非洲健康数据共享监管：比较研究。

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2024-01-18 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad035

Annelize G Nienaber McKay, Dirk Brand, Marietjie Botes, Nezerith Cengiz, Marno Swart

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Defusing the legal and ethical minefield of epigenetic applications in the military, defense, and security context. 化解军事、国防和安全领域应用表观遗传学的法律和伦理雷区。

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-12-13 eCollection Date: 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad034

Gratien Dalpé, Katherine Huerne, Charles Dupras, Katherine Cheung, Nicole Palmour, Eva Winkler, Karla Alex, Maxwell Mehlman, John W Holloway, Eline Bunnik, Harald König, Isabelle M Mansuy, Marianne G Rots, Cheryl Erwin, Alexandre Erler, Emanuele Libertini, Yann Joly

{"title":"Defusing the legal and ethical minefield of epigenetic applications in the military, defense, and security context.","authors":"Gratien Dalpé, Katherine Huerne, Charles Dupras, Katherine Cheung, Nicole Palmour, Eva Winkler, Karla Alex, Maxwell Mehlman, John W Holloway, Eline Bunnik, Harald König, Isabelle M Mansuy, Marianne G Rots, Cheryl Erwin, Alexandre Erler, Emanuele Libertini, Yann Joly","doi":"10.1093/jlb/lsad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad034","url":null,"abstract":"Epigenetic research has brought several important technological achievements, including identifying epigenetic clocks and signatures, and developing epigenetic editing. The potential military applications of such technologies we discuss are stratifying soldiers' health, exposure to trauma using epigenetic testing, information about biological clocks, confirming child soldiers' minor status using epigenetic clocks, and inducing epigenetic modifications in soldiers. These uses could become a reality. This article presents a comprehensive literature review, and analysis by interdisciplinary experts of the scientific, legal, ethical, and societal issues surrounding epigenetics and the military. Notwithstanding the potential benefit from these applications, our findings indicate that the current lack of scientific validation for epigenetic technologies suggests a careful scientific review and the establishment of a robust governance framework before consideration for use in the military. In this article, we highlight general concerns about the application of epigenetic technologies in the military context, especially discrimination and data privacy issues if soldiers are used as research subjects. We also highlight the potential of epigenetic clocks to support child soldiers' rights and ethical questions about using epigenetic engineering for soldiers' enhancement and conclude with considerations for an ethical framework for epigenetic applications in the military, defense, and security contexts.","PeriodicalId":56266,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and the Biosciences","volume":"10 2","pages":"lsad034"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10719446/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138813228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The AI cycle of health inequity and digital ageism: mitigating biases through the EU regulatory framework on medical devices 健康不公平和数字时代歧视的人工智能循环：通过欧盟医疗设备监管框架减少偏见

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-12-07 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad031

Hannah van Kolfschooten

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Cryopreservation and current legal problems: seeking and selling immortality. 低温保存和当前的法律问题:寻求和出售不朽。

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-11-09 eCollection Date: 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad028

Alexandra Mullock, Elizabeth Chloe Romanis

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'The law is very, very outdated and not keeping up with the technology': novel forms of assisted gestation, legal challenges, and perspectives of reproductive rights advocates in England and Wales. “这项法律非常、非常过时，跟不上技术”：新型的辅助妊娠、法律挑战以及英格兰和威尔士生殖权利倡导者的观点。

IF 3.4 2区哲学

Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-11-01 eCollection Date: 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad027

Elizabeth Chloe Romanis

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Neuroethics guidance documents: principles, analysis, and implementation strategies. 神经伦理学指导文件：原则、分析和实施策略。

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-10-26 eCollection Date: 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad025

Matthew R O'Shaughnessy, Walter G Johnson, Lucille Nalbach Tournas, Christopher J Rozell, Karen S Rommelfanger

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Implementing the human right to science in the regulatory governance of artificial intelligence in healthcare. 在医疗保健人工智能监管治理中落实科学人权。

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-10-14 eCollection Date: 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad026

Calvin W L Ho

{"title":"Implementing the human right to science in the regulatory governance of artificial intelligence in healthcare.","authors":"Calvin W L Ho","doi":"10.1093/jlb/lsad026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsad026","url":null,"abstract":"Artificial intelligence (AI) enables a medical device to optimize its performance through machine learning (ML), including the ability to learn from past experiences. In healthcare, ML is currently applied within controlled settings in devices to diagnose conditions like diabetic retinopathy without clinician input, for instance. In order to allow AI-based medical devices (AIMDs) to adapt actively to its data environment through ML, the current risk-based regulatory approaches are inadequate in facilitating this technological progression. Recent and innovative regulatory changes introduced to regulate AIMDs as a software, or 'software as a medical device' (SaMD), and the adoption of a total device/product-specific lifecycle approach (rather than one that is point-in-time) reflect a shift away from the strictly risk-based approach to one that is more collaborative and participatory in nature, and anticipatory in character. These features are better explained by a rights-based approach and consistent with the human right to science (HRS). With reference to the recent explication of the normative content of HRS by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of the United Nations, this paper explains why a rights-based approach that is centred on HRS could be a more effective response to the regulatory challenges posed by AIMDs. The paper also considers how such a rights-based approach could be implemented in the form of a regulatory network that draws on a 'common fund of knowledges' to formulate anticipatory responses to adaptive AIMDs. In essence, the HRS provides both the mandate and the obligation for states to ensure that regulatory governance of high connectivity AIMDs become increasingly collaborative and participatory in approach and pluralistic in substance.","PeriodicalId":56266,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and the Biosciences","volume":"10 2","pages":"lsad026"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10581746/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49685506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Doctors’ duty to provide abortion information 医生提供堕胎信息的义务

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4430194

M. Oberman, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann

{"title":"Doctors’ duty to provide abortion information","authors":"M. Oberman, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.4430194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4430194","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With abortion remaining legal in over half of the country and a proliferation of websites offering information on how to access abortion medications, for those who know where to look, there are sound options for safely ending an unwanted early-stage pregnancy. But not all patients have equal access to reliable information. This Article addresses the urgent downstream harms caused by the lack of access to abortion information, and argues that in view of these consequences, regardless of abortion’s legal status, clinicians have a duty to provide their patients with abortion information. We begin by documenting clinicians’ hesitation to share abortion information, drawing on our interviews with 25 doctors practicing medicine in a state where abortion is criminalized. Next, we explain why clinicians are duty-bound to provide all-options counseling. We then consider whether such duties shift where abortion is criminalized. After identifying the limited legal risks associated with supplying abortion information, and showing how, by requiring all-options counseling, professional societies might reduce risks to patients and clinicians, we conclude that, regardless of the legal status of abortion, clinicians have a professional responsibility to share basic abortion information – including treatment options and how to access those options.","PeriodicalId":56266,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and the Biosciences","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46834929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Genetic data are not always personal-disaggregating the identifiability and sensitivity of genetic data. 遗传数据并不总是个人的——分解了遗传数据的可识别性和敏感性。

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-07-24 eCollection Date: 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad029

Johanna Rahnasto

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Open science in play and in tension with patent protections. 开放科学正在发挥作用，与专利保护关系紧张。

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Journal of Law and the Biosciences Pub Date : 2023-07-19 eCollection Date: 2023-07-01 DOI: 10.1093/jlb/lsad016

Anna Nuechterlein, Ari Rotenberg, Jeff LeDue, Paul Pavlidis, Judy Illes

{"title":"Open science in play and in tension with patent protections.","authors":"Anna Nuechterlein, Ari Rotenberg, Jeff LeDue, Paul Pavlidis, Judy Illes","doi":"10.1093/jlb/lsad016","DOIUrl":"10.1093/jlb/lsad016","url":null,"abstract":"The open science (OS) movement has garnered increasing support in academia alongside continued financial and reputational incentives to obtain intellectual property (IP) protections over research outputs. Here, we explore stakeholder perspectives about intersections between OS and IP to inform the development of institutional OS guidelines for the neurosciences in Canada. We held six focus groups and three interviews with 29 faculty members from a major research and clinical center in Canada. The semi-structured interview guide probed perspectives on the respective roles of patents and OS in neuroscience-related research. We applied thematic content analysis to the transcript data, and extracted 12 major themes and 30 subthemes. Participants perceived a conflict between OS ideologies and the inherently restrictive nature of patents, and highlighted the importance of autonomy, justice, and respectful, culturally safe research practices in any future adoption of OS. Overall, the data suggest that a hybrid OS-IP policy model supported by local expertise may be best suited to meet the priorities and values of the community while mitigating perceived threats. This model includes expanded education about patenting, incentivized data sharing and collaboration, and tangible resources to support implementation of OS that includes skilled support in digital research infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":56266,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Law and the Biosciences","volume":"10 2","pages":"lsad016"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2023-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/74/2c/lsad016.PMC10357088.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9858020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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