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This 3 year project intends to modify existing genetics education curricula to create culturally competent education interventions (i.e., independent modules and a 20-hour comprehensive intervention…

Student Pugwash USA (SPUSA) will hold an international conference, 'Science and Social Responsibility in the New Millennium,' June 28-July 4, 1999. This event, which will bring 200 students…

This project provides support for the 7th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved &Cancer. The Symposium was held February 27-March 3, 1999, at the Grand Hyatt Washington…

This study will examine the significance accorded to disability in judgements about quality and value of human lives, focusing on two domains in which such judgments are of central importance…

This project will explore the breadth of current efforts to structure public health practice to respond to advances in genetics, analyzing these efforts for their consistency with existing public…

The broad goal of the research proposal is to identify factors that either promote or inhibit the development, by scientists, of new genetic technologies relevant to health care and to consider the…

Stigma and discrimination are recognized as potentially important social consequences of advances in genetic information. This broadly conceived study of stigma will focus on public attitudes,…

This study will examine how the public conceptualizes human genetic mechanisms and interprets and uses this information. The major goals of this study are to 1) document the general character of the…

This project addresses the ethical, legal, and social implications of Alzheimer's disease (AD) genetics from the critical perspective of a group at high risk for the disease: currently…

The long term goal of this project is to improve patient understanding about breast cancer risk and genetic testing. This project will conduct a clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a CD-…