The Human Genome Project has raised many issues regarding the contributions of genetics
to a variety of diseases and societal conditions. With genetic testing now easily conducted …

While the proliferation of human genetic information promises to achieve many public
benefits, the acquistion, use, retention, and disclosure of genetic data threatens individual …

* JD Candidate 2011, University of Minnesota Law School; B. Med. Sci. 1982, University of
Newcastle, NSW, Australia; B. Med. 1984, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia; Ph. D …

The shared nature ofgenetic information presents new challenges for legal understandings
ofthe self Within traditional egal discourses the individual is conceptualised as separate and …

Recently, genetics and genomics have become consumer products, moving beyond the
research lab and outside the clinic into the daily life of modern citizens. Direct-to-consumer …

As Judge Bork stated, this is a remarkable time in the life sciences in terms of the speed of
advances in genetic technologies and in terms of their analytical power. 1 They are matched …

This article is based in three ideas, namely: 1. All the questions in the field of" privacy" and"
confidentiality" derived from genetic tests only must be taken into account if we deal with" …

The increasing use of genetic information has emerged as an important concern worldwide
as scientific and technological advances continue to advance at lightening speed and as …

With the increasing rate of technological advance-ment in all fields, but especially those
related to genetics and associated data collection, considerations about privacy have …

There has been considerable debate over a number of years on the ethical issues raised by
the research uses to which archival human material can be put. Material of this nature has …