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Note: Knowledge Is Power: Physician Abandonment as a Model for the Duty to Disclose Research Findings

Abstract

This Note evaluates the adequacy of the legal relationships that currently exist between parties in a genetic research project. It then proposes that researchers and physicians owe a duty to disclose certain findings to research participants, using the common law tort of physician abandonment as a model for the duty to disclose.