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Bioethics and power: Informed consent procedures in post-socialist Latvia

Aivita Putniņa

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Health (social science)Transplantation HeterologousPopulationPost socialistPower (social and political)PoliticsHistory and Philosophy of ScienceInformed consentSecondary analysisHuman Genome ProjectHumansMedicineeducationQualitative ResearchPhysician-Patient Relationseducation.field_of_studyInformed Consentbusiness.industrySocialismOrgan TransplantationBioethicsFocus GroupsLatviaFocus groupTissue DonorshumanitiesEngineering ethicsbusiness

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This paper explores two lines of development in the donor consent procedures in post-Soviet Latvia. The paper is based on secondary analysis of interview, focus group discussion data, and media and legal text material collected throughout three previously conducted research projects on organ transplantation, population genome project and xenotransplantation focusing on the historical development of the issues of donor consent across these three fields of medical technologies. The paper argues that the quality of consent depends not as much on political and legal change per se as on the strengthening of the position of both medical specialists and donors, facilitating bonds between the two.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2013-12-01Social Science & Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.03.040