TITLE

Unesco and the human genome

AUTHOR(S)

Mayor, Federico

PUB. DATE

April 1993

SOURCE

UNESCO Courier;Apr93, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p46

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Takes a look at Unesco's involvement in the ambitious international Human Genome Project. Projects comes up against a fundamental inequality in the division of wealth and resources between North and South; Social and moral implications of the uses of the findings; Stakes involved in genetic mapping are immense.

ACCESSION #

9305030631

Tags: GENE mapping

 

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