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Ethical, Social, and Legal Implications (ESLI) of Human Genome Project Research Guide

WHERE TO BEGIN

Remember that ESLI can be broken down into ethical, legal, and social implications, so you may not find that searching for the acronym alone yields the best or most results. Your research may require you to focus on just one aspect of ESLI, in which case you will also want to think of similar terms to employ in keyword searches. Many words, of course, can be used to describe ethics-related issues. For an detailed overview of the ESLI project, read The Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute: Reflections on an Ongoing Experiment by McEwan et al.

Search Databases

Improve your results by searching Health—EBSCO or PubMed with Subject Terms. Additionally, you can search the database Subjects List (sometimes called a Thesaurus) for Subject Terms to focus your results. Always remember to set the dropdown field to Subject Terms when searching by subject. Subject Terms relevant to this assignment might include:

gene therapy
genomes
genomics
genome, human
human chromosomes
human genome project

You might combine such strictly genetic subjects with those relating to ESLI, such as:

ethics
ethics, medical
legal procedure
liability, legal
social responsibility
social values

Just as you do with keywords, you can build more complex searches by combining Subject Terms with AND, OR, and NOT. You might try searches like the following: