title: Introduction to the article collection 'Translation in healthcare: ethical, legal, and social implications'.
abstract: 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, these platforms facilitate new kinds of interactions, challenge longstanding understandings of privacy and consent, and raise fundamental questions about how the translational patient pathway should be organised.This editorial introduces the cross-journal article collection "Translation in healthcare: ethical, legal, and social implications", briefly outlining the genesis of the collection in the 2015 Translation in healthcare conference in Oxford, UK and providing an introduction to the contemporary ethical challenges of translational research in biology and medicine accompanied by a summary of the papers included in this collection.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Ewert House Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DD, UK. michael.morrison@dph.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6870-6673
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.affiliation: Centre for Health, Law and Emerging Technologies (HeLEX), Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Ewert House Banbury Road, Oxford, OX2 7DD, UK.|Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Donna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Dickenson
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1215 Welch Road MOD A Office 75, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
authors.forename: Sandra Soo-Jin
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D003256:Community Participation; D003219:Confidentiality; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D057285:Precision Medicine; D018907:Privacy; D035842:Research Subjects; D061108:Social Media; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence