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Coroners and the obligation to protect public health: the case of the failed UK vCJD study

Coroners and the obligation to protect public health: the case of the failed UK vCJD study
Coroners and the obligation to protect public health: the case of the failed UK vCJD study
The Health Protection Agency has recently attempted to create a postmortem tissue archive to determine the prevalence of abnormal prion protein. The success of this archive was prevented because the Health Protection Agency could not convince coroners to support the study's methodology and participate on that basis. The findings of this paper detail and support the view that the Coroners' Society of England and Wales's refusal to participate was misguided and failed to appreciate that coroners have a moral obligation to protect public health. Measures to assist coroners in fulfilling this role are proposed.
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McGowan, C.R.
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Viens, A.M.
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McGowan, C.R.
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Viens, A.M.
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McGowan, C.R. and Viens, A.M. (2011) Coroners and the obligation to protect public health: the case of the failed UK vCJD study. Public Health, 125 (4), 234-237. (doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2010.12.001). (PMID:21440922)

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The Health Protection Agency has recently attempted to create a postmortem tissue archive to determine the prevalence of abnormal prion protein. The success of this archive was prevented because the Health Protection Agency could not convince coroners to support the study's methodology and participate on that basis. The findings of this paper detail and support the view that the Coroners' Society of England and Wales's refusal to participate was misguided and failed to appreciate that coroners have a moral obligation to protect public health. Measures to assist coroners in fulfilling this role are proposed.

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Published date: 26 March 2011
Organisations: Southampton Law School

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Local EPrints ID: 370022
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/370022
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Date deposited: 13 Oct 2014 11:08
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 18:11

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Author: C.R. McGowan
Author: A.M. Viens

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