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Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 101

Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity

This book assesses the scientific value and merit of research on human genetic differencesâ€"including a collection of DNA samples that represents the whole of human genetic diversityâ€"and the ethical, organizational, and policy issues surrounding such research. Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity discusses the potential uses of such collection, such as providing insight into human evolution and origins and serving as a springboard for important medical research. It also addresses issues of confidentiality and individual privacy for participants in genetic diversity research studies.

Heritable Human Genome Editing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Heritable Human Genome Editing

Heritable human genome editing - making changes to the genetic material of eggs, sperm, or any cells that lead to their development, including the cells of early embryos, and establishing a pregnancy - raises not only scientific and medical considerations but also a host of ethical, moral, and societal issues. Human embryos whose genomes have been edited should not be used to create a pregnancy until it is established that precise genomic changes can be made reliably and without introducing undesired changes - criteria that have not yet been met, says Heritable Human Genome Editing. From an international commission of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, ...

Human Genome Diversity Project
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 102

Human Genome Diversity Project

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 106

Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity

This book assesses the scientific value and merit of research on human genetic differences?including a collection of DNA samples that represents the whole of human genetic diversity?and the ethical, organizational, and policy issues surrounding such research. Evaluating Human Genetic Diversity discusses the potential uses of such collection, such as providing insight into human evolution and origins and serving as a springboard for important medical research. It also addresses issues of confidentiality and individual privacy for participants in genetic diversity research studies.

Human Genome Editing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Human Genome Editing

Genome editing is a powerful new tool for making precise alterations to an organism's genetic material. Recent scientific advances have made genome editing more efficient, precise, and flexible than ever before. These advances have spurred an explosion of interest from around the globe in the possible ways in which genome editing can improve human health. The speed at which these technologies are being developed and applied has led many policymakers and stakeholders to express concern about whether appropriate systems are in place to govern these technologies and how and when the public should be engaged in these decisions. Human Genome Editing considers important questions about the human a...

The Human Genome Diversity Project
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Human Genome Diversity Project

The Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP) was launched in 1991 by a group of population geneticists whose aim was to map genetic diversity in hundreds of human populations by tracing the similarities and differences between them. It quickly became controversial and was accused of racism and 'bad science' because of the special interest paid to sampling cell material from isolated and indigenous populations. The author spent a year carrying out participant observation in two of the laboratories involved and provides fascinating insights into daily routines and technologies used in those laboratories and also into issues of normativity, standardization and naturalisation. Drawing on debates and theoretical perspectives from across the social sciences, M'charek explores the relationship between the tools used to produce knowledge and the knowledge thus produced in a way that illuminates the HGDP but also contributes to our broader understanding of the contemporary life sciences and their social implications.

Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome

There is growing enthusiasm in the scientific community about the prospect of mapping and sequencing the human genome, a monumental project that will have far-reaching consequences for medicine, biology, technology, and other fields. But how will such an effort be organized and funded? How will we develop the new technologies that are needed? What new legal, social, and ethical questions will be raised? Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome is a blueprint for this proposed project. The authors offer a highly readable explanation of the technical aspects of genetic mapping and sequencing, and they recommend specific interim and long-range research goals, organizational strategies, and funding levels. They also outline some of the legal and social questions that might arise and urge their early consideration by policymakers.

Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Science, Colonialism, and Indigenous Peoples

Examines how contemporary relations between indigenous and Western nations are shaped by the dynamics of power, the politics of property, and the apologetics of law.

Genetics, Evolution, and Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 782

Genetics, Evolution, and Man

Surveys the fundamentals of genetics, the principles and techniques of population genetics, the inheritance of complex traits, and socially relevant aspects of human genetics and evolution

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 495

The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader

DIVA collection of foundational and contemporary essays in postcolonial science studies./div