Swabbing Students: Should Universities Be Allowed to Facilitate Educational DNA Testing?

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 32-40

  Callier, Shawneequa L ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

education; genetic research; human subjects research; IRB (institutional review board); law; medical humanities

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EDUCATION; ETHICS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY;

DNA; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; EDUCATION, PHARMACY, GRADUATE; FACULTY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC RESEARCH; GENETIC TESTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEARNING; NONTHERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 84859593727     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2012.656803     Document Type: Article

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