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How Much Information about the Risk of Cystic Fibrosis Do Couples Want to Know?
To complement his theoretical work, Dr. Asch will also be leading a project to assess the amount of information that couples desire about the risk of CF. The appropriate timing of CF carrier…- Cystic Fibrosis
- Decision Making
- disease /disorder proneness /risk
- gene mutation
- Genetic Counseling
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Prescriptive Decision Modeling for Cystic Fibrosis Screening
Dr. Asch will be conducting a prescriptive decision analysis for CF screening programs, which will use decision theory and economic techniques to model decision-making about CF carrier testing. The…- Cystic Fibrosis
- Decision Making
- gene mutation
- Genetic Counseling
- health care cost /financing
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Ethical and Policy Issues in Cystic Fibrosis Screening
This project will focus on individuals and families receiving care from a health maintenance organization. The assessment of the ethical and policy issues in CF screening seeks to determine the level…- autosomal recessive trait
- coping
- Cystic Fibrosis
- dyadic interaction
- Ethics
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Theological Questions Raised by the Human Genome Initiative
The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences will monitor the ongoing research of the HGP by drawing out its implications for theology and ethics. The project's long range value will be to…- culture
- Ethics
- Genetic Counseling
- genetic mapping
- Genome
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The Human Genome Initiative and Access to Health Care
This project will provide an overview of the impact of the HGP on access to health care. In addition to scholarly articles, the product of this research will be a book on the HGP and access to health…- Books
- Ethics
- gene therapy
- Genetic Counseling
- genetic disorder
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Cancer and the Human Genome: Ethical Implications
Using historical methods, this project explores the relevance of eugenics to genomics for the specific case of cancer theory and policy. The project will first examine the history of eugenics to see…- biotechnology
- ergonomics
- Ethics
- genetic disorder
- Genome
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The Human Genome Project and Women
The objectives of this project are to determine the impact of the HGP on women, to examine whether this impact meets standards of fairness or gender justice, and to identify ways of avoiding or…- breast neoplasms
- Cystic Fibrosis
- data collection methodology /evaluation
- Ethics
- Female
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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…- aggression
- Behavioral Genetics
- behavioral medicine
- biotechnology
- court
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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…- disease /disorder proneness /risk
- Ethics
- Genetic Counseling
- genetic disorder diagnosis
- Genome
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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…- Ethics
- genetic techniques
- Genome
- health care cost /financing
- Health education