The Human Genome Project and Minority Communities: Ethical, Social, and Political Dilemmas

by Raymond A. Zilinskas and Peter J. Balint

Zilinskas and Balint and their contributors examine the divisions between minority groups and the scientific community, particularly in the area of medical and genetic research. Minorities have reasons to be skeptical of medical research in general and genetics research in particular. The sad history of the Tuskegee experiment, in which black men with syphilis were left untreated so that the course of the disease could be studied, undermined confidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275969614
• ISBN13: 9780275969615
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.7"