1 DNA, Data and Ethics
In discussions about genetics and ethics, a nexus of material is encountered which refers to a central component, the genetic material, DNA. Some discussions touch on DNA only tangentially; for instance, discussions on prenatal diagnosis of disease and its consequences are often more about reproduct...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.566.7200 2023-05-15T16:49:47+02:00 1 DNA, Data and Ethics Jacqui Stewart The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.566.7200 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1937/1/stewartja1_dna_final.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.566.7200 http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1937/1/stewartja1_dna_final.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/1937/1/stewartja1_dna_final.pdf text ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T12:17:51Z In discussions about genetics and ethics, a nexus of material is encountered which refers to a central component, the genetic material, DNA. Some discussions touch on DNA only tangentially; for instance, discussions on prenatal diagnosis of disease and its consequences are often more about reproductive medicine than genetics or DNA. But there are three quite distinct and recent developments which concern DNA itself. They are the development of DNA fingerprinting, the development of medical and DNA information banks such as the DeCode project in Iceland, and DNA sequencing initiatives such as the Human Genome Project. I am grateful to Catherine Cowley for raising some issues in relation to these developments,1 which I will try to address in this paper. One really significant problem, often overlooked by commentators, is that these developments involve using different physical techniques for treating DNA. This results in qualitatively different kinds of information and provokes different ethical questions as a consequence. These differences in laboratory techniques, and the information on DNA that they give, do not seem to have been taken into account Text Iceland Unknown Cowley ENVELOPE(-134.909,-134.909,60.518,60.518) |
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In discussions about genetics and ethics, a nexus of material is encountered which refers to a central component, the genetic material, DNA. Some discussions touch on DNA only tangentially; for instance, discussions on prenatal diagnosis of disease and its consequences are often more about reproductive medicine than genetics or DNA. But there are three quite distinct and recent developments which concern DNA itself. They are the development of DNA fingerprinting, the development of medical and DNA information banks such as the DeCode project in Iceland, and DNA sequencing initiatives such as the Human Genome Project. I am grateful to Catherine Cowley for raising some issues in relation to these developments,1 which I will try to address in this paper. One really significant problem, often overlooked by commentators, is that these developments involve using different physical techniques for treating DNA. This results in qualitatively different kinds of information and provokes different ethical questions as a consequence. These differences in laboratory techniques, and the information on DNA that they give, do not seem to have been taken into account |
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