Division of Medical Ethics, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA.
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO), Biobanco, Madrid, Spain.
Biopreserv Biobank. 2024 Jun;22(3):242-247. doi: 10.1089/bio.2023.0107. Epub 2024 Jan 18.
Biobanks are important resources for improving public health and individual care. Some legal frameworks can be more or less conducive to advancing the potential benefits of biobanks. The purpose of this article is to assess biobanking legislation and practices in Spain to determine how well they fare in such a regard. We focus here on some of the primary ethical values that ground relevant legislation and that we believe are consistent with promoting biobanking benefits: the value of scientific research; efficient use of scarce resources; and respect for the dignity of donors. We argue that although Spanish regulations advance these values in important ways, they also have provisions that undermine them and thus risk limiting the potential benefits of biobanks. We offer some suggestions for improvement.
生物银行是改善公共卫生和个人护理的重要资源。一些法律框架或多或少有利于推进生物银行的潜在利益。本文旨在评估西班牙的生物银行立法和实践，以确定它们在这方面的表现如何。我们在这里关注一些作为相关立法基础的主要伦理价值观，我们认为这些价值观符合促进生物银行利益的目标：科学研究的价值；有效利用稀缺资源；以及尊重捐赠者的尊严。我们认为，尽管西班牙的法规在重要方面推进了这些价值观，但它们也有一些破坏这些价值观的规定，因此有可能限制生物银行的潜在利益。我们提出了一些改进建议。
