Ethical and privacy issues in genetic databases

Title: Ethical and privacy issues in genetic databases
Creator: Giggins, Helen; Brankovic, Ljiljana
Relation: AiCE 2002: 3rd Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference. Conference Proceedings of AiCE 2002 Sydney, September 30th, 2002; Third Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference; Computer Ethics: its Impact upon Australia (Sydney 30 September, 2002) p. 34-45
Relation: http://www.deakin.edu.au/scitech/it/index.php
Publisher: Deakin University, School of Information Technology
Resource Type: conference paper
Date: 2002
Description: genetic information have become available for research and other purposes. An example of such databases is the Icelandic Health Database containing health and genetic records about the total population of Iceland. This has raised many privacy and ethical questions, both among health professionals and the general public. Many agree that genetic information bears more ethical and privacy concerns than other health databases. In this paper we review the main privacy and ethical issues connected to genetic information and we pay special attention to disclosure of individual values through statistical analysis.
Subject: genetic databases; privacy; data security; computer ethics
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35504
Identifier: uon:3987
Identifier: ISBN:0730025608
Language: eng
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