Morality and the Human Genome Project

Basic paper for use in Human Reproduction classes Very interesting angle Morality and the Human Genome Project         Does the Human Genome Project affect the moral standards of society? Can the information produced by it become a beneficial asset or a moral evil? For example, in a genetic race or class distinction the use of the X chromosome markers can be used for the identification of a persons ethnicity or class (Murphy,34). A seemingly harmless collection …showed first 75 words of 1365 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1365 total…United States, Office of Technology Assessment, Mapping Our         Genes: Genome Projects: How Big, How Fast?, Johns Hopkins University         Press: Baltimore,1988. Gert, Bernard, Morality and the New Genetics: A Guide for Students and Health         Care Providers, Jones and Bartlett: Sudbury, Massachusetts,1996. Lee, Thomas F., The Human Genome Project: Cracking the Genetic Code of Life,         Plenum Press: New York, 1991. Murphy, Timothy F., and Lappe, Marc, ed., Justice and the Human Genome         Project, University of California Press: Berkeley, 1994.