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Project Resources and Presentations

• DNA Patent Database Statistics: 2011 — Adobe PDF or MS PowerPoint Slides —
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions — 2006
• Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The Ethics of Patenting DNA — 2002
• SACGHS Oversight of Patents and Access study topic — 2006-2010
• GENE WARS, by Robert Cook-Deegan, full text PDF
• Links to selected archival documents cited in GENE WARS
• Genes, Patents, and Bioethics - Will History Repeat Itself?, Scope Note 39, by Susan Cartier Poland, J.D.

Historical Documents on Genetics and Public Policy

• Eugenics Record Office. BULLETIN No. 10 A: Report of the Committee to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means of Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the American Population. I. THE SCOPE OF THE COMMITTEE'S WORK, by HARRY H. LAUGHLIN, Secretary of the Committee, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, February, 1914.
• Eugenics Record Office. BULLETIN No. 10B: Report of the Committee to Study and to Report on the Best Practical Means of Cutting Off the Defective Germ-Plasm in the American Population. II. THE LEGAL, LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE ASPECTS OF STERILIZATION, by HARRY H. LAUGHLIN, Secretary of the Committee, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, February, 1914.
• EUGENICAL STERILIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES, by Harry H. Laughlin, full text PDF, size 6.5MB

Resources on Genetic Patents at the National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics

The links below are dynamic searches from the NIREHG databases. These databases are updated every two weeks.

• Genetics QuickBibs
• GenETHX: Genetics and Ethics Database
• General Literature on Genetic Patents
• Books
• Philosophical Literature
• Archival Documents
• Genetics Organizations
• Genetics Syllabi Covering Patenting

Web Sites

• Duke Institute for Genome Science and Policy
• National Information Resource on Ethics & Human Genetics
• Bioethics Research Library
• Profiles in Science, National Library of Medicine: Archival Collections of Prominent Biologists

Last updated on January 2, 2012