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Free Content What's ELSI got to do with it? Bioethics and the Human Genome Project

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.

Keywords: ELSI; bioethics; genetics

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 01 March 2008

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