Genetics and Ethics
• Clinical Genetics on the Web. This web site accompanies Genetics in Clinical Practice: New Directions for Nursing and Health Care
• Yahoo Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis Page
• Yahoo Human Cloning Page
• Yahoo Biotechnology and Genetics Page
• Yahoo Gene Therapy Page
• Yahoo list of Genetic Testing Services
• Yahoo Genetically Modified Food Debate Page
• A World of Genetics Societies
• NY Times Cloning Page
• Gattaca Page (requires java)
• National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health
• DOE Human Genome Program
• Bryn Williams-Jones' Genetics and Ethics Page
• The National Human Genome Research Institute
• Bioethics.net: Cloning and Genetics
• The American Society of Gene Therapy
• Gene Therapy: the Scientific vs. the Societal
• Pittsburgh Human Gene Therapy Center
• The Gene Letter
• Hereditary Disease Foundation: Genetic Testing Page, with links to Nancy Wexler articles
• Genetic Clairvoyance, by Richard Saltus
• Slouching Towards Creation: TIME/Pathfinder Cloning Site (uses lots of Java)
• PROFESSIONAL DISCLOSURE OF FAMILIAL GENETIC INFORMATION, by ASHG Social Issues Subcommittee on Familial Disclosure
• The Sperm Bank of California
• Northwest Andrology and Cryobank Sperm Donor List
• Providers of Infertility Services and  Products
• Gay Sperm Bank, actively recruiting gay and bisexual sperm donors
• Fairfax Cryobank
• Mental Health Net: Metapsychology Online Review: Genetics Section
• Gene Therapy for Prostate Cancer: Urology Times, Nov. 1998
• Rethinking Gene Delivery Systems: Science World. Jan. 2000
• New Gene Therapy Techniques: Science News, May 2000
• Genetic Engineering and Its Dangers
• Institute for Human Gene Therapy
• Washington Post Cloning Report
• World Book: Cloning: Are Humans Next?

 

 
 
 

NPR News Articles in Real Audio

• Gender Selection Report on NPR Morning Edition, 06/02/1999 in Real Audio!
• Living Organism Patent, on NPR Morning Edition 06/16/1999  Report by Dan Charles in Real Audio!
• SELLING THE FAMILY GENES - Jan 12, 1999: NPR's Joe Palca in Real Audio!
• Human Growth HormoneCourt Battle -- NPR's Elain Korry reports.  Morning Edition May 20, 1999.  In Real Audio.
• Bob Edwards talks with Eric Jeungst about the FBI using DNA samples of criminals.  Morning Edition October 13, 1998.  In Real Audio.
• Search the NPR archive

General Pages
• American Medical Association
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• American Psychiatric Association
• Psychiatric News
• Canadian Psychiatric Association
• Psychiatric Services Journal
• Mental Health Net
• LookSmart Genetic Ethics links
• Yahoo Biomedical Ethics Page
• University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics
• The Health Law Resource
• Iwon genetics links
• About.com Biotech Ethics page

Reproductive Rights
• Yahoo Abortion Page
• Yahoo Abortion Rights Debate
• About.com Abortion Rights
• National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League
• The National Abortion Federation
• National Right to Life
• Operation Rescue National
• NOW and Abortion Rights/ Reproductive Issues
• New York Times article on 25th anniversary of Roe v Wade
• U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons
• Women of the World: The Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
• Detroit News Item: Privacy rights collide in sterilization case
• Lexington Herald-Leader: Abortion foes pleased by progress of 3 bills
• Lexington Herald-Leader: Few senators oppose bill on abortion delay

Confidentiality and Truth Telling
• Senate Bill 1360 - Medical Records Confidentiality Act of 1995
• Review of Reporting Requirements for Psychiatrists (in Massachusetts), by James T. Hilliard, Esq.
• Men of Zeal: Snoops and Paparazzi, by Herbert S. Sacks, M.D.
• Computerized Patient Records Said to Threaten Confidentiality
• The Newest Federal Privilege: Jaffee v. Redmond and the Protection of Psychotherapeutic Confidentiality, by Paul A. Lombardo, Ph.D., J.D.

Eugenics
• STATEMENT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS
• Eugenics Watch, on the Africa 2000 Web Site
• Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
• What's Morally Wrong With Eugenics? by Arthur Caplan
• Not Dead Yet Web Site Eugenics Page
• Eugenics.net -- apparently a pro-eugenics site
• The NeoEugenics' Web Site - pro-eugenics
• ChangeSurfer Genethics Links
• DMOZ Eugenics Links
• Lessons in Eugenics from Arthur Mee's `Children's Encyclopedia', by Grant Rodwell
• Book Review of Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. Ian Robert Dowbiggin
• Beyondism: Raymond B. Cattell and the New Eugenics by Barry Mehler
• Study Says US Eugenics Paralleled Nazi Germany
• U.S. Eugenics Like Nazi Policy
• DEFINING THE DEFECTIVE: MASS CULTURE AND THE MEANINGS OF HEREDITARY DISEASE IN AMERICAN EUGENICS by Martin S. Pernick
• WGBH Peoples and Discoveries site: Eugenics movement reaches its height 1923
• The Roots of the I.Q. Debate: Eugenics and Social Contro lby Margaret Quigley
• ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA on Eugenics
• Modern Trends Smack of Old-Time Eugenics, By Beverly LaHaye

 

 
 
 
 
 

Genetic Discrimination

• Government-Citizen Group Suggests Policies to Limit Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace
• National Partnership: Genetic Discrimination
• Paul Steven Miller, "Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 26, no. 3 (1998): 189-97. Article Abstract
• ACLU:GENETIC DISCRIMINATION IN THE WORKPLACE FACT SHEET
• ACLU Urges Senate to Take Immediate Action To Protect Against Genetic Discrimination
• American Medical Association: Genetic Discrimination Page
• AMA Genetics and Molecular Medicine Front Page
• Genetic Testing for Disease Susceptibility: Social, Ethical and Legal Issues for Family Physicians, by Mary Terrell White, in American Family Physician, Sept 1, 1999
• FindArticles.com: Genetic Discrimination
• Slate Magazine: Baby Needs a New Set of Genes: Everyone's against genetic discrimination. Or so they think., By Michael Kinsley
• Executive Order on Genetic Discrimination, THE WHITE HOUSE, February 8, 2000

Growing Organs for Humans and Xenotransplantation

Discover Magazine: Spare Parts.(growing human organs from human cells) by Josie Glausiusz, August, 1999

GROWING NEW ORGANS: Researchers have taken the first steps toward creating semisynthetic, living organs that can be used as human replacement parts, Scientific American April 1999

CMU, Pitt pondering big biotech effort aimed at growing human organs; Post-Gazette.com Friday, November 12, 1999

Growing Hope in a Lab: Scientist-created Organs Implanted in Animals

Progress in Growing Organs: Frog Eyes, Ears from Embryo; Human Parts Next?, by Eric Prideaux, The Associated Press

Lab-grown bladders prove a success in dogs, February 13, 1999  Science News Online

Cloned Pigs Seen As Organ Advance; PopSci.com, Aug 19, 2000

Yahoo Organ Transplant page

Iwon.com Xenotransplantation page

Find articles on xenotransplantation

TRANSPLANTING ANIMAL ORGANS INTO HUMANS IS FEASIBLE, John J. Fung, USA Today (Magazine)

Nov, 1999

Gene Therapy

Betting on Designer Genes, Smithsonian Magazine Jan 2001

Monkey Business, Time.com, Sunday, January 14, 2001

Gene therapy R.I.P.? Salon June 1, 2000