Charting ELSI's future course: lessons from the recent past.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We sought to examine the ethical, legal, and social implications (ELSI) literature research and scholarship types, topics, and contributing community fields of training as a first step to charting the broader ELSI community's future priorities and goals.

Methods

We categorized 642 articles and book chapters meeting inclusion criteria for content in both human genetics or genomics and ethics or ELSI during a 5-year period (2003-2008) according to research and scholarship types, topics, and the area of advanced training of the first-listed author. Research and scholarship type categories were developed and characterized through in-depth review of 95 randomly sampled publications from the larger group.

Results

There is a single dominant approach to ELSI, which fo

SUBMITTER: Walker RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5901958 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature