Genetic Engineering Links
- Ethics of Genetic Engineering Genetic engineering offers a major ethical dilemma. There are great rewards if genetic engineering becomes a widespread reality, but the dangers are equally great.
- Genetic Engineering - Paradise on Earth or a Descent into Hell? By Keith Parkins. Long article, with a huge list of references at the end.
- National Human Genome Research Institute Ethical, Legal and Social implications of genetics research
- Biocapitalism: What Price the Genetic Revolution? Essay by David Shenk from Harper's Magazine.
- Genetic Engineering Discusses various aspects of genetic engineering and cloning and the ethical issues involved.
- Genetics and Public Issues Genetics and Public Issues program designs resources to help integrate genetic information, biotechnology and services into society, educating such audiences as policy makers, health professionals, lawyers and judges, and consumers.
- Council for Responsible Genetics Working to encourage public understanding and involvement in debates about genetic engineering.
- The Center for the Study of Technology and Society - Biotechnology It is a field that brings together agriculture, genetics, cloning, health, medicine and reproductive technology. The Center is a nonprofit research and educational group based in Washington, D.C.
- Embracing Change with All Four Arms This paper sets out to defend human genetic engineering with a new bioethical approach, post-humanism.
- Genetic Engineering in the Agriculture Industry Information regarding some of the negative implications of genetic engineering.
- Ethics and Genetic Engineering Ethics surrounding traditional breeding practices that were restrained by species boundaries and the radical techniques involved in recombitant DNA technologies.
- Ethics and Genetics - Articles and Papers From the Center for Bioethics. Genetic determinism, gene therapy and ethical concerns.
- Human Germline Engineering: Best Hope or Worst Fear? FAQs and contrasting viewpoints by over 50 experts in many fields. Organized into 11 topics. Text, audio and video clips. For scientists, educators, students and the general public.
- Choose Better Human Genes Talk by Howard Holme advocating gene choice.
- Human Cloning and Re-engineering. Human embryo cloning research and related topics, with special attention directed to the moral and ethical implications.
- What is Genetic Engineering? Information on the basics of genetic engineering from the Australian Biotechnology Association.
- Ethics and Genetic Engineering A Response to the Department of the Environment's Consultation Paper - Genetically Modified Organisms and the Environment
- Policing the Gene Machine Essay by Arthur Allen from Lingua Franca.
- Judaism and the Human Genome Project Commentary from the Jewish Law (journal) site that deals with questions that Judaism raises in connection with the human genome project
- Ethical Dangers of Genetic Engineering. What will it be like in a future world where your life started with your parents designing your genes.
- Interchurch Commission on Genetic Engineering (Aotearoa New Zealand) An ecumenical commission to address the issues surrounding genetic engineering from a christian perspective.
- Ethics of Genetic Engineering: An Annotated Bibliography on genetic engineering ethics.
- Humans and Genetic Engineering in the New Millenium Humans and Genetic Engineering in the New Millenium - How are we going to get Gen-Ethics just in time?
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