The National Dialogue on Genetics
College Park, Maryland, March 21-22, 1998
Guest Editors: Ilana S. Mittman, Washington, D.C.; Victor B. Penchaszadeh, New York, N.Y.; Marian G. Secundy, Washington, D.C.

Paper

Minority Health Issues and Genetics
James E. Bowman

Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA

Address of Corresponding Author

Community Genet 1998;1:142-144 (DOI: 10.1159/000016152)

  Key Words

• Department of Energy
• Ethics
• University of California Lawrence Livermore
• Experimentation
• Discrimination
• Abortion
• Ethics
• Federal government

  Abstract

The Federal government has had many conferences on ethical guidelines involving minorities in research and in genetic testing. Examples of governmental violation of its own ethical precepts will be given with respect to invasion of privacy of employees, dissimulation about the role of abortion in genetic testing, and in sponsoring research abroad that would not be countenanced at home.

  Author Contacts

James E. Bowman, MD
4929 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615-2815 USA
Tel. +1 773 702 1485, Fax +1 773 285 1549
E-Mail jbowman@midway.uchicago.edu

  Article Information

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