title: Rhetoric of anonymity and property rights in human biological materials (HBMs).
abstract: This article starts with the fact that science, the marketplace and the law adopt a particular vision in regards to the human biological resources that reduce them to a concept of mere biological information. The object of such vision is to make such resources available to science. Mariachiari Tallacchini has undertaken an exhaustive analysis on the existence or not of the right to property on the human biological resources, their use and the consent of the subject in order for its use.
authors.affiliation: Law Faculty, Catholic University of Piacenza, Biotechnology Faculty, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Mariachiara
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tallacchini
mesh_terms: D018070:Biological Specimen Banks / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D010067:Ownership / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D018907:Privacy; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000941:ethics*