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Bibliography from the National Library of Medicine, provided by the NIH, on issues in human research.

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Prenatal Testing for Non-Medical Traits

This editorial can be found in the March 2023 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics. You can find it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uajb20/23/3 Bowman-Smart et al. have written a thoughtful and balanced essay examining some of the ethical issues surrounding large scale use of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) and the thorny question of whether it should be […]

March 15, 2023

Share Your ELSI Research Tools

by Deanne Dunbar Dolan, PhD I write today to encourage ELSI scholars to deposit their published and unpublished research tools into the Research Tools repository on ELSIhub. Since 1990, the ELSI Research Program at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has contributed meaningfully to the formation of a field of study focused on the ethical, legal, and social implications […]

September 29, 2021

Beyond the Belmont Report

by Wamia Siddiqui, BS and Richard R. Sharp, PhD The following blog is an editorial found from the American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 1, Issue 10. For decades, the Belmont Report—and the associated regulatory framework it inspired—has been a cornerstone in the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects. Despite its canonic status, there are many reasons to view the […]

September 27, 2021

Delaying Vaccine Dosages Is More Than Risky, It’s Unethical

by Elisheva “Eli” Nemetz, BA, MBE The field of bioethics emerged as a result of the atrocities attested to in the Nuremberg Trials and the inhumanity of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. People were a means to an end, and perverted minds engaged in medical experimentation on vulnerable individuals. These barbaric and sadistic ‘projects’ led to […]

April 9, 2021