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The Concepts of Common Good and Public Interest: From Plato to Biobanking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2011

KADRI SIMM
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The expression “common good” usually conjures up benevolent associations: it is something to be desired, a worthy goal, and it would be a brave person who declared he or she was against the common good. Yet modern times have taught us to be critical and even suspicious of such grand rhetoric, leading us to query what lies behind this ambitious notion, who formulates what it stands for, and how such formulations have been reached.

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Special Section: From Informed Consent to No Consent?
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 554 - 562
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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