Groups, Communities, and Contested Identities in Genetic Research

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2000

Publication Title

Hastings Center Reports

Keywords

genetic research, ethics, community consent, bioethics

Abstract

Obtaining community consent before conducting genetic research seems to be a way of ensuring that a whole community is not harmed against its wishes--that all Jews, or all African Americans, or all Hutterites are not forced to learn things about themselves they would rather not know, or are not forced into identities they would rather not have. Unfortunately, there are insurmountable problems both in identifying the right representatives of the community and in obtaining their consent.

Comments

Available in Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library Special Collections Archive

Volume

30

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