The following monographs related to ethical, legal and social implications of genetics research and clinical practice are online:
- United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment. THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT AND PATENTING DNA SEQUENCES. Unpublished, draft document. April 1994. 370 p. Table of Contents.
- United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment. THE SURVEY OF GENOME SCIENCE CORPORATIONS. March 1994. 89 p.
- United States. President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. SPLICING LIFE: A REPORT ON THE SOCIAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES OF GENETIC ENGINEERING WITH HUMAN BEINGS. Washington, DC: President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, 1982. 126 p.
- United States. President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research. SCREENING AND COUNSELING FOR GENETIC CONDITIONS: A REPORT ON THE ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF GENETIC SCREENING, COUNSELING, AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office [GPO], 1983. 122 p.
Through a cooperative agreement with Duke University’s Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, North Carolina, the following items are now available full text.
- Eugenics Record Office. BULLETIN No. 10 A: Report of the Committee to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means of Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the American Population. I. THE SCOPE OF THE COMMITTEE’S WORK, by HARRY H. LAUGHLIN, Secretary of the Committee, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, February, 1914.
- Eugenics Record Office. BULLETIN No. 10B: Report of the Committee to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means of Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the American Population. II. THE LEGAL, LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF STERILIZATION, by HARRY H. LAUGHLIN, Secretary of the Committee, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, February, 1914.
- EUGENICAL STERILIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES: A REPORT OF THE PSYCHOPATHIC LABORATORY OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF CHICAGO, by HARRY H. LAUGHLIN, 1922.
- THE GENE WARS, by ROBERT COOK-DEEGAN, 1994.
The “Genetics Bookshelves” feature a ‘virtual bookshelf’ of monographs found fulltext at either academic or governmental websites.
Through a cooperative agreement with the Hastings Center of Garrison, New York, articles from its journals, the Hastings Center Report and IRB: Ethics and Human Research are now available free online. This QuickBib provides an up-to-date list of such articles.
A related resource at the Kennedy Institute is the National Bioethics Advisory Commission digital archive. This QuickBib lists NBAC reports relevant to genetics.
Citations in the EthxWeb database link to tens of thousands of items available at other websites, many of which are available free, online. Remember to check the box next to “Full text available on-line” before submitting your search request from any of the three search screens. This sample QuickBib lists online books on genetics cited in the EthxWeb database.
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