2003 ELSI Program Schedule

Underlying Themes of this Year's Program

• Why Do We Want to Study Our Genes?
• Who Should Have Access to My Genome?
• Who Owns the Genome?
• Should We Be Changing Our Genes?

Day 1

• 60 Minutes video: "Do You Really Want to Know?"
• Introduction to Ethical Theory
• Case Study: Withholding Information
• Bernhard Gert: "Genetic Maladies: Deviation or Harm?"
• Discussion of deaf parent hypothetical

Day 2

• Introduction to Law
• Eugenics
• Adrienne Asch: "Prenatal Testing: Implications for Family and Society"
• Introduction to Basic Science and Genetics
• Discussion of Cystic Fibrosis testing

Day 3

• Wendy Mckinnion: "Issues of Genetic Counseling and BRCA Testing"
• Genetic Discrimination
• The Basics of Patenting
• BRCA Direct-to-Consumer Marketing

Day 4

• Video and Discussion: Dean H. Hamer, Ph.D. on Behavioral Genetics
• Causation, Behavior, and Crime
• Forensics
• Video of Jay Koehler: "One in Millions, Billions, and Trillions: Numbers and Error Rates in Legal Cases That Include DNA Match
• Statistics"
• Mock trial

Day 5

• Race, HGDP, and the HapMap Project (with Charmaine Royal)
• Joesph Graves: "The Emperor's New Clothes: Genomic Analysis and the Social Constructions of Race"
• Discussion: Race, HGDP, and the HapMap Project
• Cloning
• Aine Donovan: Pedagogical Resources

Day 6

• Film viewing: "GATTACA"
• Discussion of film: "GATTACA"