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During each of the summers of 2000, 2001 and 2002, Dartmouth's Ethics Institute proposes to offer a Faculty Institute to a group of 20 college and university teachers in order to prepare them to…

This project will delineate the major ethical, legal and social issues accompanying the use of genomic information to enhance normal traits in individuals and families, and to identify the precedents…

The purpose of this project is to develop, implement and evaluate a model comprehensive genetic education program for health, education and human services professionals in Mississippi. The project…

This project will develop, produce, disseminate and evaluate a one-hour educational videotape for primary care clinicians (physicians, nurses, others) on the clinically relevant science and…

This pilot project will develop a World-Wide Web document, the ELSI Electronic Case Book, to introduce primary care physicians and non physician providers to their future roles as facilitators of the…

In their previous project, these investigators examined the ethical and legal issues raised by the prospect of using the products of human genome research for enhancement purposes. This work…

The University of Michigan School of Public Health will develop, implement, evaluate, document and disseminate a model curriculum concentration in public health genetics. The public health genetics…

The broad, long-term objectives of this proposal are to develop Genline, an electronic clinical genetics knowledge base, to assist health professionals in using the scientific advances of The Human…

About a dozen states have enacted laws restricting health insurers' use of genetic test information, and a new federal law declares that asymptomatic genetic predisposition to illness does not…

This is a comparative anthropological analysis of the social networks associated with three groups of heritable connective tissue disorders: 1) Marfan syndrome, epidermolysis bullosa and…