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Genomic data, including findings incidental to the purpose for which a study is undertaken, can contain information of use and importance to research subjects related to their health, lifestyle, and…

This project involves the research and writing of a history of modern prenatal diagnosis. Recent scholarly work in the history of science, technology, and medicine will provide the conceptual…

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…

The proposed project seeks to provide conceptual and normative analyses of three ideas that are often invoked in debates over the prospects of human genetic engineering. These concepts are: 1) "…

This project will study factors influencing physician's adoption of new genetic tests and their attitudes towards how tests should be provided. It will also begin to explore consumer attitudes.…