Advisory Council to the Harvard Health Caucus

Working Paper Series

The Harvard Health Caucus is pleased to announce the publication of its 2001 Working Paper Series on the Social Implications of the Human Genome Project. The working papers in this issue were commissioned by the Caucus during the Spring of 2001, coinciding with the Caucus' Spring 2001 Policy Roundtable Series. The articles represent the views of the authors, and are not necessarily those of the Harvard Health Caucus at Harvard Medical School.

Editorial Staff

Erica Seiguer Editor in Chief
Shalini A. Tendulkar Publications Editor

Jeffrey Blander, Business

Jennifer S. Geetter, Law

Karen Rafinski, Journalism (through June 2001)

Shalini A. Tendulkar, Government and Public Health

Sara Tullis, Business

Nikhil Wagle, Medicine

Susan Wright, Religion

Valerie Duff, Copy Editor

Working Paper Series 2001: The Social Implications of the Human Genome Project (Winter/Spring 2002)

Table of Contents, Editorial Staff and Foreword
The Legal and Economic Implications of Gene Patents	David Berry	Harvard Medical School
Restricting Knowledge of Human Biology: Why Human DNA Should not be Patented	Matthew Albright	Harvard Divinity School
Religion and the Social Implications of the Human Genome Project	Lisa Sowle Cahill	Boston College
Privacy and Preventive Health Care: Integrating Coverage of Genetic Technology Into Health Policies	Allan T. Bombard	AETNA US Healthcare
The Human Genome Project: Policy Concerns of Genetic Testing	Arnold W. Cohen, Rajeev Malhotra	Harvard Medical School
Scientists or Journalists: Who Should We Trust to Report Science to the Public	Scott Weiss	Harvard Medical School
Bottom of the Ninth	Davin Quinn	Harvard Medical School
A Human Story: Matt Ridley's Genome	Sarah Evans	HMS Div. of Medical Sciences
Re-Assessing Academic-Business Interplay in the Genome Era of Biomedical Research	Esther Landhuis	Doctoral Program in Immunology, HMS
The Elephant in the Room: Eugenics and the Language of Genetic Medicine	Tina Deck	Harvard Divinity School
Spring 2001 and 2002 Policy Roundtable Series
The Human Genome Project and the Practice of Medicine in 2020	Ben White	Harvard Medical School