title: Ethical and legal issues raised by cord blood banking - the challenges of the new bioeconomy.
abstract: • Cord blood banking raises ethical and legal issues which highlight the need for careful regulatory approaches to the emerging bioeconomy. • Consent processes for both private and public banking should be inclusive and representative of the different familial interests in the cord blood. • Property law is a potentially useful way of understanding the mechanisms for donation to both public and private banks. • Increasing tensions between public and private models of banking may require the adoption of hybrid forms of banking.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health Governance, Law and Ethics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. laparicio@abmdr.org.au
authors.forename: Cameron L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Stewart
authors.forename: Lorena C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Aparicio
authors.forename: Ian H
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Kerridge
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D035843:Biomedical Research; D001771:Blood Banks / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005312:Fetal Blood; D006291:Health Policy; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D010067:Ownership / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D017150:Public Sector; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*