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Genetic Testing
Is genetic testing coming soon to a workplace near you? Whether to find out your genetic propensity for disease is a heart rending decision. What discriminations do people who submit to testing face? New national proposals and a recent court case in California are accelerating the debate.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readHeidi Hayduk: Legislative consultant, Healthcare Leadership Council, an organization in Washington representing a wide variety of players in the health care industry. Vicki Laden: Oakland Civil Rights Attorney, with Boxer, Elkind and Gerson law firm, lead attorney for the employees in the Lawrence Berkeley Labs case. Former National Institutes of Health funded Fellow at Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. Dr. Gregory Stock: Director, UCLA's Program on Science, Technology and Society. Author of Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machins into a Global Superorganism. Organizing a free symposium on human genetic technology at UCLA in March. David Shenk: Writer; Author of Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut. Wrote a piece on genetic testing in the December issue of Harper's Magazine. Dr. Robin Clark: Associate Professor of pediatrics; specialist in medical genetics. Heads the Cancer Genetics Unit at USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Mark di Camillo: Director, the Field Poll. Dr. Jonathan Fielding: Director of Public Health, Los Angeles County Department of Health.
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