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 …

Over the past few years, I have often been approached by researchers who tell me that they
wonder if they are doing the right thing by looking for this or that disease gene. They are …

In this paper we question whether the concept of" genetic privacy" is a contradiction in terms.
And, if so, whether the implications of such a conclusion, inevitably impact on how society …

We have witnessed in this decade a veritable explosion in both our understanding of
genetics and our exposure to genetic information.! From Dolly the cloned sheep 2 to DNA …

The advent of genetics and genetic testing has given rise to unique problems for the family.
The discovery of a predisposition to a genetic condition in one individual also reveals …

The UN Inter-Agency Committee on Bioethics met for its tenth meeting at the UNESCO
headquarters in Paris on 4-5th March 2011. Member organisations such as the WHO and …

Developing an understanding of the social importance of privacy is critical not just in gaining
philosophical clarity about privacy but also because our emphasis on privacy as an …

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 …

For moral philosophers and lawyers one of the most embarrassing characteristics of
genetics is that it touches intergenerational problems. It follows from the intergenerational …

Genetics and diseases of genetic origin inescapably involve families. Thus genetic
information obtained by testing one person may contain information of the same kind on one …