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    Genetic Factors in Crime--Findings, Uses & Implications

    The goal of the project will be to address and clarify the methodological, legal and philosophical issues raised by research on genetic factors in crime, and to introduce the public to this emerging…
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    Reassessing Health, Normality, and Confidentiality

    As we learn more and more about the genetic causal factors for various diseases, there will in many cases be a shift to explaining these diseases in terms of genetics. First, this project will trace…
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    The Human Genome Project: A Choices and Challenges Forum

    A full day public education forum on the HGP, to be held in 1992, is being planned as part of the Choices and Challenges forum series at Virginia Tech. This series was established in 1985 to provide…
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    The Human Genome Project: Human and Scientific Dimensions

    The MCET and a community of academics, researchers and practitioners have designed an interdisciplinary educational program about the ethical, social and legal implications of the HGP. Using multiple…
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    A Conference on Human Genome Research Implications

    The directors of genetic counseling training programs met to update graduate education curricula. The focus was threefold: ethnocultural issues; ethical, social and legal implications of the HGP; and…
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    Access to the Genome: Justice at the Frontier of Science

    This project will examine the issue of affording access to the technologies that are expected to emerge from the Human Genome Project (HGP). The potential impact of these technologies on the fate of…
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    Geneticists Approach Ethics: An International Survey

    Problems in international cooperation may arise if genetics centers in different nations operate under different ethical standards. A survey will be conducted for the HGP. Geneticists in 34 nations…
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    Managing Genetic Information: Policies for US Nurses

    The purpose of this project is to address the professional dilemmas of nurses related to genetic information about patients and their families. Continuing education in genetics is not widely…
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    ELSI Core for the Cooperative Human Linkage Center (CHLC)

    The CHLC was the first genome center to have an ELSI core as an ongoing part of the center. The ELSI core has two areas of focus. First, it has formed a multidisciplinary IRB-type committee that…
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    National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics

    The goal of this project is to collect, and disseminate information on the ethical, legal, and social implications of human genetics. 'Human genetics' includes the HGP, genetic testing and…