Drawing Upon The Right to Privacy To Craft Laws to Protect Genetic Information

2008 (Unfinished)

The value of privacy to individuals and society as a whole has historically absorbed the interest of scholars from disciplines that vary from religion to politics; oftentimes scientific or technological discoveries create new perspectives on privacy in our lives which raise ethical and legal concerns. The completion of the sequencing of the human genome and the resulting scientific advancements which have been made that have enabled ready access to information about one's deoxyribonucleic acid ("DNA"), present unique challenges to defining legal privacy protections...

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