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The 5th ELSI Congress - ELSIcon2022
ELSIcon2022 Paper: Investigating an Ethos of Duty in Precision Medicine Research Calls for Minority Participation
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ELSIcon2022 • Paper • May 27, 2022

Rachel Bailey

A rhetorical utility of identity may provide a novel method of inquiry for bioethics research. To increase diversity of Precision Medicine (PM) research data, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) targets minorities to participate in the All of Us Research Project by promoting public awareness of the program in minority communities. However, bioethical scholars Kadija Ferryman and Makaela Pitcan question the efficacy and ethics of PM, noting bias in datasets and bias in outcomes despite efforts to collect diverse data (2018). Further, a 2013 study by Cox and McDonald finds that research subjects respond to a sense of duty or social responsibility. A 2021 study by Ratcliff et al suggests PM research participants are willing to participate despite uncertainty about research purpose and use of their data, corroborating the idea that research subjects participate in genetics research out of a sense of moral and national obligation. This raises ethical concerns about the vulnerability of targeted participants, specifically when program messaging promotes an ethic of citizen duty. A rhetorical constitutive theory of ethos may help explain uncritical participation in PM research as rhetoric affiliated with PM, the All of Us Research Program, and the Human Genome Project collectively construct an ethos of idealized American citizenship. As citizens identify with Americanist qualities such as election (by God), Puritan Work Ethic, and logics of Manifest Destiny in calls for PM research participation, participants may consent without scrutiny of research efficacy or their own personal safety regarding ethical use of their health data.

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Education and public reception of genetic science

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