2005 Summer Faculty Institute
Teaching Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project
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- Genes and Human Behavior (1.71 MB)
presented by Dean H. Hamer, Ph.D.
- Genetic Testing for Heredity Breast and
Ovarian Cancer: Potential Ethical Issue (543 KB)
presented by Jennifer E. Axilbund, M.S., C.G.C
- New Challenges of Genetics
and Ethics (155 KB)
presented by Ronald M. Green
- What Are Our Obligations to the Children
We Bring Into Being? (116 KB)
presented by Ronald M. Green
- Is Race Real? A web forum organized by the Social Science Resource
Council.
- DOEgenome.org Provides Human Genome Project Information
- A
single gene answers the question of sex. An article from the International
Herald Tribune mentioned in the Dean Hamer session.
- Deadly
Medicine: Creating the Master Race. Special 10th
Anniversary Exhibition, Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC, until October 16, 2005
- Barry
Mehler, "Eliminating the Inferior: American and Nazi Sterilization
Programs," Science for the People (Nov-Dec 1987).
Article from the Institute of Academic Racism archives
Summer
Faculty Institute (ELSI)