Collaborative Research: Genomics & Society - Exploring ethics, impacts and consequences of technological advances

合作研究：基因组学协会-探索技术进步的伦理、影响和后果。开发基因组学技术的科学家和工程师必须解决有关基因组学研究过程的关键伦理问题，社会在基因组学研究中的作用，并仔细反思新技术对不同社会群体、经济部门、社区、动物和环境的预期和非预期影响。该项目开发了一个研究生伦理教育计划，该计划使用基因组学和基因组学技术的进步作为团队教学，基于案例的模块化课程的中心主题，以促进学生理解和仔细思考这些进步所提出的社会和伦理问题的能力。本课程通过重视技术形成的讨论，以及关于是否使用它们的原则决定，不仅考虑了公认技术的下游后果。这种方法在考虑与基因组学和基因组学技术相关的广泛的伦理和社会问题方面具有创新性，这些问题远远超出了健康或特定学科主题，带来了跨学科，批判性思维和价值观意识与基因组学科学一起探索一系列相互关联的社会和伦理问题，涵盖人类健康和隐私，司法，农业，动物和环境。特别是该课程提出了在人类/动物/环境边界的关键问题，关于人类，动物和环境健康之间的关系，以及对不同种类的生物，包括但不限于人类的各种做法的允许性。这些问题不可避免地让学生接触到不同的观点和相互竞争的想法;讨论和评估任务旨在帮助他们对这些问题做出平衡，深思熟虑和明智的判断。该课程正在德克萨斯A M大学（TAMU）开发，并在学院站的校园内为来自不同学科的学生提供。在第二年，该课程还通过电子学习和文本资源在得克萨斯州A M大学科珀斯克里斯蒂（TAMUCC）和博伊西州立大学。

Collaborative Research: Genomics & Society - Exploring ethics, impacts and consequences of technological advances.Scientists and engineers who develop genomics technology must address key ethical questions about the process of genomics research, the role of society in genomics research, and carefully reflect about the intended and unintended implications of new technology for different social groups, economic sectors, communities, animals and the environment. This project develops a graduate ethics education program that uses advances in genomics and genomics technology as a central theme in a team-taught, case-based, modular course to facilitate students' ability to understand and think carefully and critically about social and ethical questions raised by these advances. This course considers more than the downstream consequences of accepted technologies by placing importance on discussion of the formation of technologies, as well as on the in-principle decisions about whether to use them at all.This approach is innovative in considering a broad spectrum of ethical and societal issues related to genomics and genomics technologies that goes far beyond health or specific disciplinary topics to bring interdisciplinarity, critical thinking and values awareness together with genomics science to explore a range of interconnected social and ethical issues spanning human health and privacy, justice, agriculture, animals, and the environment. In particular the course raises critical questions at the human/animal/environment boundary, concerning the relationships between human, animal and environmental health, and the permissibility of various practices on different kinds of living beings including, but not restricted to humans. These questions inevitably expose students to diverse perspectives and competing ideas; and the discussions and assessment tasks are geared to help them make balanced, thoughtful, and informed judgments about these questions. The course is being developed at Texas A&M University (TAMU), and presented on campus in College Station for students from a variety of disciplines. During year 2, the course is also being presented via e-learning and textual resources at Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (TAMUCC) and Boise State University.