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D Nelkin

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PubMed1991

Classify and control: genetic information in the schools.

Recent advances in molecular and behavioral genetics are providing theoretical models to explain complex behavior--learning disabilities and behavioral problems--in simple biological terms. There are intrinsic difficulties in interpreting genetic information. Yet genetic explanations are particularly appealing in school systems pressed by demands for efficiency and accountability. Thus, genetic explanations are affecting the way children are categorized in the schools. This Article reviews genetic advances bearing on educational issues and their implementation through biological tests. It suggests the social consequences and legal implications of the growing prevalence of genetic assumptions.

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PubMed1983

Workers at risk.

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Humans↗
PubMed1983

The politics of personhood.

Concepts of personhood are embedded in a political and cultural context. The persistence of moral conflicts--and advances in biological and clinical sciences accelerate their number--and the difficulties of resolving them reflect features of our political culture. In the extraordinary American tension between individual and public life, controlling the definition of what it is to be a human being becomes a fundamental basis of social and political power. Much is at stake in these persistent conflicts: freedon of individuals; authority of professionals; automony of scientists; and even the role of the church.

Beginning of Human Life↗
PubMed1982

Intellectual property: the control of scientific information.

Control of scientific information is increasingly at the center of legal and administrative disputes, raising questions of sovereignty and secrecy, of proprietary rights over research. Disputes originate from efforts to extend the right of access to data at an early stage of research, from demands for information that threaten confidentiality, from proprietary interests in competitive areas of research, and from government restrictions on the free exchange of scientific ideas. They reflect policy changes with respect to information disclosure, university-industry collaboration, patent rights, and national security. A review of diverse situations that have led to disputes and of efforts to negotiate principles for controlling intellectual property suggests the problems of establishing such principles in the context of the changing role of science.

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AIDS and the social sciences: review of useful knowledge and research needs.

This paper reviews several areas of social science research that are relevant to the critical social dimensions of the AIDS crisis. These dimensions include how to effect changes in behavior so as to break the chain of transmission, how best to inform the public about risks so as to develop reasonable and nondiscriminatory policies and practices based on the best available scientific information, and how to organize health care and social services so as to treat persons with AIDS effectively, humanely, and at reasonable cost. Relevant research in the social sciences includes studies of behavioral risk modification, risk perception, communication and persuasion, attitudes toward civil liberties, and the organization of health care. This work suggests useful avenues for research on AIDS that could provide the understanding necessary to develop effective ways of approaching the problems presented by this devastating disease.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗