‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات خصوصية الجينات. إظهار كافة الرسائل
‏إظهار الرسائل ذات التسميات خصوصية الجينات. إظهار كافة الرسائل

الخميس، نوفمبر 11، 2010

Genetic Privacy


} Perhaps what is most worrisome is that our genetic risks are occult, hidden; attributes that others could know even as we remain ignorant about them. Here lurks an image of genetic information as a mysterious, powerful, and inexorable force that will dominate and control our futures. ~  —Thomas Murray, “Genetic Exceptionalism and ‘Future Diaries,’” 1999

} Somewhere in a medical laboratory, there may be a scientist who knows far more about you than you do yourself. ~  —Business week, 15 April 2002