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New Genetics and Society
Critical Studies of Contemporary Biosciences
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What's ELSI got to do with it? Bioethics and the Human Genome Project

Pages 1-6 | Published online: 07 May 2008
 

Abstract

Two mechanisms for developing public policy in bioethics – an independent commission and the ELSI “un-commission” of the Human Genome Project – are discussed. The author, a private consultant, was staff director of the first US bioethics commission and coordinated the ELSI Program of the US Department of Energy at its outset.

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