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This conference, Genetics and Society: Impact of New Technologies on Law, Medicine, and Policy, will bring together more than 800 physicians, lawyers, ethicists, scientists, clergy, students,…

This project is a collaborative effort of faculty from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in the Departments of Human Genetics, Medical Education, Community and Preventive Medicine, and The Morchand…

The overall objective of the proposed research is to study the ethical, legal, and social implications of drug responsive genetic variations, especially where significant differences have been found…

The general aim of the project is to research and develop instructional material on business ethics decision making for those involved in commercializing biotechnology and genomics products. There…

This project will bring together an interdisciplinary working group of scholars to explore these questions. During a three year period, it will meet to develop the language, criteria, and conceptual…

The goal of this project is to explore the range of ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic research and health services with Indian and Native peoples. These issues have proven to be…

The aims of this study are to: - compare newborn identification of biochemical genetic disorders by expanded screening with clinical identification in term of the interaction between the parents and…

The overall aim of this ethnographic and longitudinal project is to assess how parents from different cultural backgrounds who have a child or who are at risk for having a child with a genetic…

The purpose of this project is to estimate the likely effects of testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations on the cost and price of life insurance contracts, under conditions where insurance companies do…

The primary objective of this study, first begun in 1999, is to compare newborn identification by expanded screening to clinical identification in children with biochemical genetic disorders in terms…