PCL102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Twin, Molecular Genetics, Bioethics
1 Feb 2018
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Big data is revolutionising the way the economy, science and society operates. Pgp-c director stephen scherer and ethicist michael szego. Doctorate in molecular genetics studied the molecular mechanisms underlying inherited photoreceptor degenerations. Then went to clinical ethics interested in evidenced-based practice and ensuring the ethics debate keeps pace with scientific advances. Did a capstone project in bioethics training capstone project became an ethical analysis of the pgp and how such a project could be adapted to the canadian setting. Pgp-harvard was established in 2005 and has been described as a pilot group within a global network. Scherer quantum advances in technology ( dna sequencing) outpace the ability to understand what the impact of the advances might be. Pgp-c = social experiment and scientific experiment, but we need each component to be grounded in the other. Pgp-c is our effort to try to learn what all the questions are we should be asking before they sneak up.
