Abstract
This article is a summary of a conference organized by the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia on the topic of genetic research. The conference considered ramifications of applications of the research, including health-related decision making, discrimination against people with particular genetic makeups, and patents. Religious, ethical, and business viewpoints were discussed.
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1. George Poste, Ph.D., is the chairman of research and development at SmithKline Beecham.
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2. Philip Reilly, M.D., J.D., is the executive director of the Shriver Center for Mental Retardation, Inc., and the senior scientist in the center's Social Science, Ethics and Law Division.
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3. Arthur L. Caplan is the director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and the university's Trustee Professor of Bioethics. He was the first president of the American Association of Bioethics.
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4. The Reverend Albert S. Moraczewski, an ordained priest in the Dominican Order of the Roman Catholic church, is senior editor of Ethics and Medics and president emeritus of Pope John XXIII Medical-Moral Research and Education, in Braintree, Massachusetts.
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5. Paul Billings is chief of the Division of Genetic Medicine and vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco and acting associate professor of medicine at Stanford University.
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6. Joan O. Weiss, M.S.W., is director of the Alliance of Genetic Support Groups and codirector of the Human Genome Education Program.
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7. Ronald G. Crystal is the Bruce Webster Professor of Internal Medicine, attending physician, and chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He is also professor of physiology and biophysics at the Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences and adjunct professor and visiting physician at the Rockefeller University Hospital.
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8. Carl B. Feldbaum, J.D., the president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, represents over 500 companies with research interests in Alzheimer's disease, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), cancer, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases with a genetic component.
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9. Jaydee Hanson is the assistant general secretary for the Ministry of God's Creation, General Board of Church and Society.
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10. Jeffrey Vaught is senior vice president of discovery research at Cephalon, Inc.
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11. Allen Bloom is a partner in the business department and a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group at the law firm of Dechert Price & Rhoads.
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12. Henry Miller is consulting professor for international studies and the Robert Wesson Fellow of Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.
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13. Lawrence Gosten is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health.
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14. Elizabeth Getting is assistant professor of human genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.