Dranseika Vilius, Piasecki Jan, Waligora Marcin
REMEDY, Research Ethics in Medicine Study Group, Department of Philosophy and Bioethics, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Michalowskiego 12, 31-126, Krakow, Poland.
Department of Logic and History of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Med Health Care Philos. 2016 Mar;19(1):141-6. doi: 10.1007/s11019-015-9667-0.
Occasional reports in the literature suggest that biological samples collected and stored for scientific research are sometimes accessed and used for a variety of forensic purposes. However, donors are almost never informed about this possibility. In this paper we argue that the possibility of forensic access may constitute a relevant consideration at least to some potential research subjects in deciding whether to participate in research. We make the suggestion that if some type of forensic access to research collections is likely to be perceived by the subjects as a reason against donating their biological materials, there are good ethical reasons to make this type of access impossible or at least severely restricted. We also provide an ethical argument for the claim that, if a total ban on this type of forensic access cannot be achieved, potential research subjects should be informed about the extent to which this type of forensic access is possible.
文献中偶尔有报道称，为科学研究而收集和储存的生物样本有时会被获取并用于各种法医目的。然而，捐赠者几乎从未被告知这种可能性。在本文中，我们认为，法医获取样本的可能性至少对一些潜在的研究对象在决定是否参与研究时可能是一个相关的考虑因素。我们建议，如果研究对象可能会将某种类型的法医获取研究样本视为反对捐赠其生物材料的理由，那么从伦理角度出发，有充分的理由使其无法进行或至少受到严格限制。我们还为以下观点提供了伦理依据：如果无法完全禁止这种类型的法医获取，那么应该告知潜在的研究对象这种法医获取的可能性有多大。
