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Yin-yang genetics, or the HSD deCODE controversy

Year: 2001

Type: article

Abstract: Iceland has attracted world-wide attention because of a controversy surrounding the Icelandic Health Sector Database Act of 1998 and the genomics company deCODE Genetics. The controversy concerns limits to state power, bioethics and regulation of research, and civil liberties. Understanding it necessitates paying attention to the yin-yang-like character of deCODE; it is international or Icelandic, what is the relation between the HSD and deCODE, will the HSD engulf the Icelandic nation as a whole?

Source: New Genetics and Society

DOI: 10.1080/14636770120070222

Author: Skúli Sigurdsson

Institutions: Max Planck Society, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Language: English

Topic: Ethics in Clinical Research

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2011884261

FWCI: 3.69

Cites: 35

Cited by: 47

Related to: 10