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There are certain social activities that are conceived as so necessary and important that we legally oblige people to participate in them. Most societies have at some point in time had general conscription of male adult citizens into the armed forces; some societies require people to serve on juries and some have compulsory immunizations. Finally, in most societies, taxation exists as a kind of socially accepted, although at the same time often disliked, kind of compulsion. In this chapter the analogies of conscription and taxation are pursued to see to what extent participation in biobank research could be perceived as so important that some kind of conscription for research would be justifiable.
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Holm, S., Hofmann, B., Solbakk, J.H. (2009). Conscription to Biobank Research?. In: Solbakk, J., Holm, S., Hofmann, B. (eds) The Ethics of Research Biobanking. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-93872-1_17
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