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Translation in healthcare: ethical, legal, and social implications

Translation in healthcare: ethical, legal, and social implications

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This article collection emerges from the ‘Translation in Healthcare: Exploring the Impact of Emerging Technologies’ conference 2015 hosted by the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford. Here a wide range of voices were brought together to discuss and think more deeply about the technological, legal, ethical, and social challenges raised by new technologies in healthcare. 
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Translation in healthcare: ethical, legal, and social implications

Edited by Donna Dickenson, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Michael Morrison

New technologies are transforming and reconfiguring the boundaries between patients, research participants and consumers, between research and clinical practice, and between public and private domains. From personalised medicine to big data and social media, the new kinds of interactions enabled by these platforms hold the potential to empower citizens, challenge long-standing ideas such as privacy, and raise fundamental questions about how the translational patient pathway should be organised.
The ‘Translation in Healthcare: Exploring the Impact of Emerging Technologies’ conference 2015 hosted by the Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX) at the University of Oxford brought together a wide range of voices to discuss and think more deeply about the technological, legal, ethical, and social challenges raised by new technologies in healthcare. In this cross-journal collection articles are brought together from BMC Medical Ethics and BMC Medical Genomics.
This collection of articles has not been sponsored and articles have undergone the journal’s standard peer-review process. The Guest Editors declare no competing interests. 
  1. DEBATE

    Citizen science or scientific citizenship? Disentangling the uses of public engagement rhetoric in national research initiatives

    The language of “participant-driven research,” “crowdsourcing” and “citizen science” is increasingly being used to encourage the public to become involved in research ventures as both subjects and scientists. ...
    J. Patrick Woolley, Michelle L. McGowan, Harriet J. A. Teare, Victoria Coathup, Jennifer R. Fishman, Richard A. Settersten, Sigrid Sterckx, Jane Kaye and Eric T. Juengst
    BMC Medical Ethics 2016 17:33
    Published on: 4 June 2016
  2. RESEARCH ARTICLE

    Attitudes to incorporating genomic risk assessments into population screening programs: the importance of purpose, context and deliberation

    The use of an overall risk assessment based on genomic information is consistent with precision medicine. Despite the enthusiasm, there is a need for public engagement on the appropriate use of such emerging t...
    Stuart G. Nicholls, Holly Etchegary, June C. Carroll, David Castle, Louise Lemyre, Beth K. Potter, Samantha Craigie and Brenda J. Wilson
    BMC Medical Genomics 2016 9:25
    Published on: 23 May 2016
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