Oral History of Human Genetics: The Intelligent Archive

描述：（由申请人提供）我们建议创建一个历史资源，使现在和将来的研究人员能够获得关于人类遗传学历史的新见解，因为它在20世纪下半叶发展。该资源将包括：一个由100名临床医生、科学家、理论家、组织领导人和人类遗传学领域伦理、法律和社会辩论参与者组成的在线口述历史核心小组；一个网站，通过注释、交叉参考和主题上下文叙述丰富这些口述历史，并允许通过定制设计的编码方案灵活和方便地进行搜索；以及一套重点采访口头作者的录像带，制作成dvd，可在正式课程和教育展览中使用。该资源将使各专业水平和各领域的研究人员能够很容易地找到他们感兴趣的信息，并指出他们对新问题、新假设和材料的新含义。调查人员还将利用访谈提供的机会，探索信件、研究笔记和其他未发表的文件的可用性，这些文件可能保存在网上或适当的档案中。

DESCRIPTION: (provided by applicant) We propose to create a historical resource that will allow researchers now and in the future to gain new insights into the history of human genetics as it developed in the second half of the twentieth century. This resource will consist of: a core group of 100 online oral histories with clinicians, scientists, theorists, organizational leaders, and participants in ethical, legal, and social debates in the field of human genetics; a website that enriches these oral histories through annotation, cross-reference, and thematic contextual narratives and allows for flexible and user-friendly searching through a custom-designed coding scheme; and a set of focused videotaped interviews with the oral authors on DVDs that can be used in formal curricula and in educational exhibits. The resource will enable researchers at all levels of expertise and from all fields to readily locate the information of interest to them and point them toward new questions, new hypotheses, and new meanings of the materials. The investigators will also use the opportunity presented by the interviews to explore the availability of letters, research notes, and other unpublished documents that may be preserved online or in appropriate archives. Because human genetics is not a medical or scientific discipline alone, but also a subject of ethical, legal and social importance, it is critical that the field and its historians continually reexamine its conceptual frameworks and remain aware of the bases and implications of its theory and practice; such reexamination can proceed only if the field's history is preserved and studied. Through our examination of the history of human genetics we will: 1. investigate how the field and its scientific knowledge and practices were shaped by the formation of collegial networks and mentoring relationships; 2. describe how the history informs current ethical, legal, and social debates on such issues as on such questions as genetic privacy and reproductive freedom, the value of human differences, the governance and financing of medical research, and the meaning of self and identity in a genetically defined and manipulable species. 3. suggest new directions for research.