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What's So Special about the Human Genome?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

ARTHUR L. CAPLAN
ARTHUR L. CAPLAN
Affiliation:
Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Abstract

Glenn McGee argues that the time is now for debating the morality of patenting human genes. In one sense he is surely right. While thousands of patents have been issued or are pending on many gene sequences, public policy with respect to ownership of the human genome is still far from settled. So a debate about the ethics of patenting genes is, if nothing else, timely. In another sense however, Professor McGee is wrong.

Type
BREAKING BIOETHICS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 422 - 424
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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