The Human Genome Project (HGP) has been the subject of extensive attention, both in the healthcare community and in the public at large. Which of the following bioethical issues is most applicable to the HGP?
A) The HGP was conducted with little participation from developing countries.
B) The HGP did not result in the number or quality of medical applications that were originally
hoped.
C) The HGP provides information that has the potential to influence the selection of behavioral
attributes.
D) The HGP calls into question many of the practices that have been accepted in Western
medicine.
Ans: C
The ethical and bioethical concerns that can evolve from the HGP are many and
varied. Among them are the issues of access to and use of new genetic information and
technology to improve health, the research that would involve human participants, and the
implications of the discovery of genetic contributions related to diseases, non-disease attributes,
and various behavioral traits such as cognition, mental illness, diurnal rhythms, and aging for
how we understand health and illness. The project did not discount common medical practices
or fail to produce useful applications. The Western focus of the project was not widely
criticized.
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