The human genome diversity project: Ethical problems and solutions

Politics and the Life Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-23

  Resnik, David B ^a,b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMODIFICATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENE; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN GENOME DIVERSITY PROJECT; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; INDUSTRY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MINORITY GROUP; PATENT; PEDIGREE; POLICY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION GENETICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HUMAN GENOME DIVERSITY PROJECT; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT;

COLONIALISM; COMMODIFICATION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ECONOMICS; ETHICS; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; GENES; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC RESEARCH; GENETICS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNATIONALITY; MINORITY GROUPS; PATENTS; PEDIGREE; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL VALUES; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; VARIATION (GENETICS); WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 0033085550     PISSN: 07309384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0730938400023510     Document Type: Article

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