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National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature - http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/
A specialized collection of books, journals, newspaper articles, legal materials, regulations, codes, government publications, and other relevant documents concerned with issues in biomedical and professional ethics. The library holdings represent the world's largest collection related to ethical issues in medicine and biomedical research. This collection functions both as a reference library for the public and as an in depth research resource for scholars from the U.S. and abroad. |
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National Information Resource on Ethics & Human Genetics - http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/nirehg/
Compilation of links, journals and other publications that offer research about the ethical and moral aspects of applying genetic knowledge to humans. |
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National Human Genome Research Institute: ELSI Research Program - http://www.genome.gov/10001618
The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program funds and manages studies related to the ethical, legal, and social implications of genetic and genomic research, and supports workshops, research consortia, and policy conferences related to these topics. |
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Council For Responsible Genetics - http://www.gene-watch.org/
Advocacy and coalition building form the core of the CRG's work in our program areas of genetic discrimination, patenting of life forms, and food safety and environmental quality. |
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Eubios Ethics Institute - http://www.eubios.info/
A non-profit group founded by Darryl Macer in Christchurch, New Zealand and in Tsukuba Science City, Japan. Site provides links, general information and conference abstracts. |
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Human Genome Project: Ethical, Legal, & Social Issues - http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.shtml
Explores the ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) surrounding availability of genetic information, as it pertains to privacy and the potential for discrimination. |
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Embracing Change with All Four Arms - http://www.changesurfer.com/Hlth/Genetech.html
This paper sets out to defend human genetic engineering with a new bioethical approach, post-humanism. |
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Eugenics, Genetic Engineering, and Cloning - http://jp.senescence.info/thoughts/genetics.html
Considerations and arguments on several scientific procedures that possibly could improve human life. |
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Genetic Engineering - Paradise on Earth or a Descent into Hell? - http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/genetics.htm
By Keith Parkins. Long article, with a huge list of references at the end. |
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Would You Have Allowed Bill Gates to be Born? - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7899821/
Bioethicist Arthur Caplan supposes Bill has Asperger's syndrome, and comments on the perils of prenatal genetic testing that involves not life and death but attributes such as personality and sociability, genius and geekiness. |