Electronic Genetic Profiling: Society and Ethics

Activity: Other activity typesTypes of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition

Description

Do you think your genes define you? What implications would there be if your
DNA profile was merged with your medical history and personal information and then stored on a computer chip? How could this benefit doctors and scientists? Is our privacy or even our security at risk? Join a panel including the Scottish Youth Parliament and Dr Claudia Pagliari, Convenor of the eHealth Interdisciplinary Research Group, for an engaging, complex debate.
Supported by the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum
Period21 Aug 2008
Event titleEdinburgh International Book Festival
Event typeOther
LocationEdinburgh, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Genetics
  • eHealth
  • Data Ethics
  • Health Records
  • Digital Health
  • personal data
  • Bioethics
  • Public Engagement
  • Genomics