Healthcare IT Today June 22, 2021
The Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School recently held an online conference covering the current state of the field. All the standard ethical issues we talk about in medicine appear in the new genetic and biological research, often with greater urgency: safety and effectiveness, equitable access, privacy and informed consent, data sharing, and individual dignity. In addition, immense philosophical questions beyond the scope of medicine are raised. I’ll look at each of these issues in the article.
Safety and Effectiveness
Time-tested processes for assuring safety and effectiveness don’t always extend to new biological techniques, because the techniques potential effects are so hard to predict. As one example, Jun Wu cited research showing that the foreign cells introduced into a...
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