Autonomy and trust in biobank research
People are often willing to participate in biobank research in spite of concerns raised in media about potential risks to personal integrity. Moreover, information about the research is often disregarded by participants. This suggests a connection between autonomy and trust; however, neither the nature of this connection nor the relative importance of these concepts is clear.
This PhD project looked at people's factual inclination to participate in biobank research. It also analyzed the concepts of autonomy and trust, their role in informed consent procedures and discussed their ethical value.
Publications
Johnsson L, Trust in Biobank Research: Meaning and Moral Significance, Doctoral thesis, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2013
Johnsson L, Helgesson G, Hansson MG, Eriksson S, Adequate trust avails, mistaken trust matters: On the moral responsibility of doctors as proxies for patients’ trust in biobank research, Bioethics, Article first published online: 10 JUN 2012, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2012.01977.x
Johnsson L, Helgesson G, Rafna, T, Halldorsdottir I, Chia KS, Eriksson S, and Hansson MG, Hypothetical and factual willingness to participate in biobank research, European Journal of Human Genetics, 2010;18:1261-1264.
Johnsson L, Hansson MG, Eriksson S, Helgesson G, Opt-out from biobanks better respects patients’ autonomy. BMJ, 2008;337(a1580).
Johnsson L, Hansson MG, Eriksson S, Helgesson G, Patients' refusal to consent to storage and use of samples in Swedish biobanks: cross sectional study, BMJ, 2008;337(a345):224-26.
PhD student
Linus Johnsson defended his PhD thesis (Trust in Biobank Research) on March 9 2013. During his PhD studies he worked part-time as a medical doctor at a health care centre in Strängnäs. He holds a degree in Medicine from Uppsala University (2004) and license to practice (2006). Linus Johnsson now part of the Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine research group at the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences.
Supervisors
- Mats G. Hansson, Professor of biomedical ethics, CRB
- Gert Helgesson, Professor, Department of Learning, Information, Management and Ethcis (LIME), Karolinska Institutet
- Stefan Eriksson, Associate professor of research ethics, CRB
Funding
Biobanker och register i forskning
Hanteringen av biobanker och register behöver möta juridiska och etiska krav från forskarsamhället, allmänheten och individen.
Tidig behandling av reumatism
Utvecklingen av nya behandlingar förreumatologiska sjukdomar kräver att studier på människor interagerar med djurmodeller. Vi arbetar med de etiska, legala och sociala frågorna (ELSI).
ELSI-Service för BBMRI.se
Vi har varit ansvariga för ELSI-service inom den nationella forskningsinfrastrukturen BBMRI.se (BioBanking and Molecular Resource Infrastructure of Sweden). Som nu ersatts av Biobank Sverige.
Biobanks- och registerforskning: Etik och juridik
Vi har ägnat många år åt konstruktiv vägledning kring hanteringen av etiska och juridiska aspekter av forskning på mänskligt vävnadsmaterial och persondata. Vi samarbetar med biomedicinare och publicerar våra resultat i vetenskapliga tidskrifter.
Vi har sammanställt våra publikationer (med abstracts) i en rapport. Rapporten är på engelska och uppdaterades i juni 2016.
