scholarly journals Mapping and sequencing the human genome: Science, ethics, and public policy. Final report

1993 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.D. McInerney
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Genome ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Science Ethics

scholarly journals Presidential Address: The Invisible Historian

2006 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Aboriginal Peoples ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Future

Abstract Although contemporary events have made it appear that there is widespread support in Canada for history as a discipline, the reality is otherwise. Many individuals, interest groups, and even institutions make considerable use of historical arguments in public debate to advance their causes, it is true. However, it is almost invariably the case that these advocates making historical arguments are not historians. This painful reality was brought home to the historical profession in 1996-97 by such events as the release of the Final Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and the debates over public policy issues such as copyright reform and a protocol for research involving humans. It is essential to the future of the discipline and of organisations such as CHAJSHC that historians reassert their role in the processes of researching, interpeting, and utilizing history in public discourse and academic arenas.

scholarly journals What's So Special about the Human Genome?

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 422-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTHUR L. CAPLAN
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Genome ◽  
Gene Sequences ◽  
Human Genes

Glenn McGee argues that the time is now for debating the morality of patenting human genes. In one sense he is surely right. While thousands of patents have been issued or are pending on many gene sequences, public policy with respect to ownership of the human genome is still far from settled. So a debate about the ethics of patenting genes is, if nothing else, timely. In another sense however, Professor McGee is wrong.

Human Cloning: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

JAMA ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 285 (14) ◽  
pp. 1895-1895
Author(s):  
A. R. Jonsen
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Human Cloning ◽  
Science Ethics
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