Research and Markets: The Data Protection Directive and Medical Research Across Europe

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c22089) has announced the addition of The Data Protection Directive and Medical Research Across Europe to their offering

The Data Protection and Medical Research in Europe: Privereal series focuses on the Privacy in Research Ethics and Law EC-funded project examining the implementation of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in relation to medical research and the role of ethics committees in European countries. The series consists of five separate volumes following the complete development of the Privereal project.

This volume relates to the first stage of the project regarding the implementation of the Data Protection Directive, in particular in the area of medical research. It contains an introduction and overview of this topic, keynote papers addressing specific questions on the subject, and a report on both the general implementation of the Directive and the implementation in relation to medical research in 26 European countries.

The book will be invaluable for those people with an interest in data protection, medical research and their implications for each other. It lays open the actual situation across Europe, including both New Member States and Newly Associated Member States.

Topics covered include:

- An overview of Directive 95/46/EC in relation to medical research
- The concept of privacy: an analysis of the EU directive on the protection of personal data
- Anonymization and pseudonymization: the legal framework at an European level
- The scope for exemptions for medical research
- The duty to provide information to the data subject: articles 10 and 11 of Directive 95/46/EC
- Overriding data subjects rights in the public interest
- Genetic information and the data protection directive of the European union
- Report Framework And Comparative Studies: EU, Norway and the NAS law report framework
- Comparative study on the implementation and effect of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in Europe: general standards
- Comparative study on the implementation and effect of Directive 95/46/EC on data protection in Europe: medical research

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