Secondary Medical Research and Consent-Requirements: 4/21/2021

Kyle Van Oosterum, MA Phil

Presented on Wednesday, April 21, 2021 – 4:00 PM MST

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There is considerable debate in legal and bioethical circles about consent-requirements for secondary medical research. Secondary research is often distinguished from primary research. For example, where primary medical researchers collect blood samples from a participant, secondary medical researchers conduct research on collected blood samples in biobanks. However, if consent is required to conduct secondary research on each of the samples, a variety of complications arises. For one, it imposes significant administrative burdens on the effectiveness of secondary research. Even if consent is solicited at time of sample-collection, the nature and purpose of future secondary research is rarely foreseeable, meaning that disclosure of research to participants is not possible, thereby straining the notion that such consent is informed This presentation critically focuses on the question of whether consent is required for secondary research and proposes a novel contractualist account of biomedical research: Consent Once, Use Many Times (COUMT.)

Kyle Van Oosterum is a MPhil in Philosophy candidate at the University of Cambridge (2020-2021). He has been awarded several honors in his educational career. He will be joining us from the UK for this webinar. For this particular webinar, ABN posted a call for papers on the Philosophy forum PhilEvents, and Mr. Van Oosterum’s abstract was chosen from that call.

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