Seminar on Ethical and Policy Issues Arising From the Project to Map and Sequence the Human Genome

来自加州的丹尼尔·凯夫莱斯和勒罗伊·胡德教授 技术研究所组织了一次研讨会， 1989/1990学年讨论道德和政策问题 与人类基因组计划有关。 研讨会将带来 教师、研究人员和学生一起， 新的生物技术科学技术中心（STC） 与加州理工学院科学计划的成员和附属机构， 伦理学和公共政策，这是位于人文学科 师. 从事基因组研究的专家和人文主义者 项目或关注围绕它的道德问题， 洛杉矶地区也将参加。 的支持下 凯夫尔斯教授和胡德教授将为加州理工学院 本次研讨会的八场会议的外部发言人。 的问题 在这些研讨会上将审查的道德和政策中心 与完成下列工作有关的问题： 基因组和基因组计划的信息 美食的备受 关于围绕测绘和 基因组测序，演讲者将研究其影响 生物学基因组计划的一般，包括问题， 项目的速度和战略，其对 R D资源的分配，国际前景& 合作，并可能影响生物学的行为。 与 关于以联合国提供的信息为中心的问题， 项目，发言者将解决这些问题，如"所有权"的 以及如何使用这些信息。 是 至关重要的是，这类问题应通过以下方式加以解决： 科学家和人文主义者，他们将在 人类基因组计划的发展。 共同努力 避免可能困扰这个项目的道德困境，他们 可以增加公众对项目的信心和支持。 作为 在STC的生物技术网站，几乎没有更好的 让这样的讨论得以进行。

Professors Daniel Kevles and Leroy Hood of the California Institute of Technology have organized a seminar for the 1989/1990 academic year to address issues of ethics and policy related to the human genome project. The seminar will bring together faculty, research staff, and students associated with the new Science and Technology Center (STC) for Biotechnology with members and affiliates of the Caltech Program on Science, Ethics, and Public Policy, which is situated in the Humanities Division. Specialists and humanists working on the genome project or concerned with the ethical issues surrounding it in the Los Angeles area will also participate. With support from this grant, Professors Kevles and Hood will bring to Caltech outside speakers for eight sessions of this seminar. The issues to be examined at these seminars center on the ethical and policy issues concerned with accomplishing the mapping and sequencing of the genome and with the information that the genome project will produce. With respect to the issues surrounding the mapping and sequencing of the genome, speakers will examine the implications of the genome project for biology in general, including questions of the pace and strategy of the project, its implications for the allocation of R&D resources, prospects for international cooperation, and likely impact upon the conduct of biology. With respect to issues centering on the information produced by the project, speakers will address such concerns as "ownership" of the information and how the information is to be used. It is vitally important that these kinds of issues be addressed by scientists and humanists who will play central roles in the development of the human genome project. Working together to avoid the ethical quagmires which could beset this project, they may increase public confidence in and support of the project. As the site of the STC for biotechnology, there is hardly a better place for such discussions to take place.