The Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care

Medical Ethics

by Thomas H. Murray (Editor)

"The volume deserves our serious attention. The authors have provided us an invaluable primer about the HGP and its implications for the future of American health care." --Jurimetrics

"This book does make a real contribution... in explaining why the genetics
revolution holds so much promise and why it is so difficult to bring that promise to fruition." --The Journal of Legal Medicine

..". marked by a forward-looking, analytically and empirically grounded thematic coherence. The editors' carefully crafted template and contributions successfully focus and organize the material." --Annals of Internal Medicine

"Excellent" --Canadian Medical Association Journal

"The editors have done a very good job integrating the contents into a very useful and readable information source." --Choice

..". this highly focused book is a well-written, thoughtful, and insightful consideration of the HGP and is valuable reading for anyone concerned with the future of our country's medical infrastructure." --Science Books & Films (**Highly recommended)

"A distinguished group of scientists, lawyers, and scholars have written a coherent, readable account of the legal, medical, ethical, and policy issues many (if not all) of us will be wrestling with on both a personal and a public level, as a result of current genetic research." --Library Journal

"Each of the contributors is a distinguished authority on the topic. Ethicists, especially, will find well-developed presentation of issues, with exposition of the differing ethical assumptions in tension in the society debate." --Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Home Page


How will the science of gene mapping and gene manipulation affect health care? Leading scholars explore the clinical, ethical, legal, and policy implications of the Human Genome Project for the forms of health care, who delivers it, who receives it, and who pays for it.

264 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Thomas H. Murray; Faculty Affiliate
President and CEO, The Hastings Center
Thomas H. Murray, President and CEO, The Hastings Center, was formerly the Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics in the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University, where he was also the Susan E. Watson Professor of Bioethics.

Murray serves on many editorial boards and has been president of the Society for Health and Human Values and of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. Among other current posts, he serves as Chair of the Ethical Issues Review Panel for the World Anti-Doping Agency, as International Expert Advisor to Singapore’s Bioethics Advisory Committee, and is Vice Chair of Charity Navigator.

Murray has testified before many Congressional committees and is the author of more than 250 publications. He is also editor, with Maxwell J. Mehlman, of the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology.

Murray is currently PI of The Hastings Center’s project, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, on ethics and synthetic biology. He is writing a book on values, drugs and sport with the working title Why We Play.

In 2004, Murray received an honorary Doctor of Medicine degree from Uppsala University.