This open access book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that combine academic argument with practical application of ethical principles. The contributors are experts in ethics and law. They address the challenges in the re-use of medical data of the deceased on a voluntary basis.

Ethical medical data donation : a pressing issue -- Data donation : how to resist the iLeviathan -- Data donations as exercises of sovereignty -- The ethics of uncertainty for data subjects -- Incongruities and dilemmas in data donation : juggling our 1s and 0s -- Posthumous medical data donation : the case for a legal framework -- Medical data donation, consent and the public interest after death : a gateway to posthumous data use -- The personal data is political -- Personal data cooperatives : a new data governance framework for data donations and precision health -- Defining data donation after death : metadata, families, directives, guardians and the route to big consent -- Enabling posthumous medical data donation : a plea for the ethical utilisation of personal health data -- An ethical code for posthumous medical data donation.