March 18th
Multipurpose Room: University Heights North Complex
Panel Coordinator: Prof. Judith Van Houten (UVM Biology)
Panelists:
- Bill Sorrell (Attorney General of the State of Vermont)
- Wendy McKinnon, Clinical Assistant Professor, Fletcher Allen
- Jim Vincent, Director of Bioinformatics Core of the Vermont
Genetics
Network
- Judy Van Houten (UVM Biology)
- John Tracy (Office of Senator Patrick Leahy)
- Readings:
- Cato Institute:
Testimony of Tom Miller before Congress Sept. 12, 2002
- "Does Genetic Research Threaten
Our Civil Liberties?" By Philip Bereano August 2000
- Genetics
and Public Policy Center: "Genetic Privacy & Discrimination", July
2007?
- "Threats
to Your Genetic Privacy," by Bernadine Healy M.D., posted November 16, 2007, U.S. News and World Report.
- "Plunging
into the Gene Pool," by Alissa Johnson, March 2007
- "Vast
DNA Bank Pits Policing Vs. Privacy Data Stored on 3 Million Americans"
By Rick Weiss Washington Post
Staff Writer Saturday, June 3, 2006
- "Human
Genetic Variation," Science
Vol. 318, 21 Dec., 2007.
- NPR commentary: "Genetic Testing:
Do you really want to know? , Jan. 30, 2008
- A pdf of an article