The capacity to collect and analyse data is growing exponentially. Referred to as 'Big Data',
this scientific, social and technological trend has helped create destabilising amounts of …

It is widely acknowledged that trust plays an important role for the acceptability of data
sharing practices in research and healthcare, and for the adoption of new health …

Calls are increasing for American health care to be organized as a learning health care
system, defined by the Institute of Medicine as a health care system “in which knowledge …

The foundations of research ethics are riven with fault lines emanating from a fear that if
research is too closely connected to weighty social purposes an imperative to advance the …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, potentiality serves as a central concept in the life
sciences and in medical practices. This special issue of Current Anthropology explores how …

Offers of payment to research participants, though quite common, persist as a source of
ethical controversy. US regulations governing human subjects research do not specifically …

The idea for this project was born during an undergraduate seminar in ancient Greek
political philosophy. The students were exploring the circumstances under which coercion …

Digital medicine is a medical treatment that combines technology with drug delivery. The
promises of this combination are continuous and remote monitoring, better disease …

Abstract BioVU, the Vanderbilt DNA Databank, is one of few biobanks that qualifies as non‐
human subjects research as determined by the local IRB and the federal Office of Human …

Importance As health information technology grows, secondary uses of personal health
information offer promise in advancing research, public health, and health care. Public …