Browsing Harvard Law School by Keyword "genetics"
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The Emerging Field of Race-Based Genetic Research: Can We Trust It?
(2006)In June of 2005, the Food and Drug Administration approved a heart disease drug named BiDil exclusively for African Americans, provoking a fiery debate among medical researchers, sociologists, and legal scholars. On the ... -
Reaping the Full Health Benefits of the Human Genome: The Duty to Warn and The Need to Establish a Comprehensive Federal Regulatory Structure for Genetic Testing
(2002)This paper discusses the need for a comprehensive federal regulatory structure governing genetic testing. Particularly, the article proposes a legal standard to govern physicians’ duty to warn their ...