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What does ELSI stand for?

Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (scientific research; genome research)


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Additional goals for the HGP include transfer of knowledge to the private sector and examination of the ethical, legal, and social issues that may arise from the project (U.
On May 2, 2008, the Law-Medicine Center, with funding support from the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence and the Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law, both here at Case Western Reserve University, held a workshop to consider the ethical, legal, and social issues raised by the prospect of newborn screening for nontreatable disorders.
9781599047805 Ethical, legal, and social issues in medical informatics.
Genome Canada, the proposed successor of the Canadian Genome Analysis and Technology program that lasted from 1992 to 1996, would be more targeted than the previous program and over half of the funding would go to six research centers for genome mapping and large-scale sequencing, functional genomics, genotyping technologies, proteomics, bioinformatics, and medical, ethical, legal, and social issues.
During the course of which, and more intently in a final chapter, he draws attention to the ontological issues such liminality raises, and the moral, ethical, legal, and social issues that proliferate thereafter.
Ethical, legal, and social issues were a primary focus of the 21 May 2005 community forum, held at the University of Washington (UW).
The ethical, legal, and social issues include a wide range of concerns including confidentiality, insurance, workplace discrimination, and community stigmatization.
Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues To bring interdisciplinary insights to these issues, Mathios and his colleague David Pelletier, associate professor of nutrition policy, are active members of the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues (ELSI) commit tee of the CGI.

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