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29 Hous. L. Rev. 7 (1992)
The Human Genome Project and Human Identity

handle is hein.journals/hulr29 and id is 17 raw text is: ESSAY THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT AND HUIJMAN IDENTITY Dan W. Brock* Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION .......................... 8 II. IMPLICATIONS FOR EQUALrrY OF OPPORTUNrrY ...... 8 A. What We Mean By Equality of Opportunity . . 9 B. What Equality of Opportunity Could Mean ... 10 III. IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR CONCEFrION OF HUMANS AS RESPONSIBLE AGENTS ...................... 13 A. The Pervasiveness of Our Conception of Humans as Responsible Agents ................... 14 1. In Criminal Law ................... 14 2. In Attitudes Toward Ourselves and Others 14 B. The Tension Caused by a Scientific View of Human Behavior ...................... 15 C. Will the Human Genome Project Alter the Tension? ............................. 16 IV. IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR CONCEPTION OF NOIALITY 18 A. Changing Conceptions of What Constitutes Good Health .............................. 19 B. Changing Conceptions of What Constitutes Normal Human Functioning and Performance 20 V. CONCLUSION ............................ 22 * Professor of Philosophy and Biomedical Ethics, Brown University. Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, Brown University. Ph.D., Columbia University, 1970.

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