Bioethics: ELSI

Susan Connell, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, USA

Published online: May 2001

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0001902

Bioethics is the study of ethical issues in biology and other life sciences, and in healthcare and medicine. In human genome research, bioethics provides a framework for discussion of ethical, legal and social issues, notably genetic privacy, genetic discrimination, and gene therapy (somatic and germline).

Keywords: bioethics; ELSI; gene therapy; genetic discrimination; genetic privacy; human genome project

 Further Reading
    book Bishop JE and Waldholz M (1990) Genome. New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster.
    book Jonsen AR (1998) The Birth of Bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press.
    book May L, Collins-Chobanian S and Wong K (1998) Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, 2nd edn. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
    book Rothstein MA (ed.) (1997) Genetic Secrets: Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality in the Genetic Era. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
    book Veatch RM (ed.) (1989) Cross Cultural Perspectives in Medical Ethics: Readings. Boston: Jones and Bartlett.
    book Walters L and Palmer JG (1997) The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy. New York: Oxford University Press.

Related Sub-Topics:

Bioethics | Techniques and Tools in Clinical Genetics | Linkage Analysis | Gene Mapping by Disease Association | Inter-Individual Variation and Polymorphism | Bioinformatics and Genetic Disease
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Connell, Susan(May 2001) Bioethics: ELSI. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1038/npg.els.0001902]