Abstract
Health surveys and biobank research projects involve large groups of people, in the role of participants as well as potential beneficiaries. In this article, the nature of biobank participation in ambitious welfare states is explored by a description and an analysis of the Norwegian HUNT project. The analysis of HUNT material brings forth a transformation of the ethical side of partaking. Different approaches to the overall aim of emancipation of the individual through and from the state – paternalism and autonomy going hand in hand – are spelt out in the three recruitment policies of HUNT 1–3. In this article, I aim to show how the HUNT participant is conceptualised in different ways in the three rounds of recruitment, and how these conceptualisations illustrate essential features of the welfare state project in a period of transition.
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