Links & References
  
(All online links cited were last accessed 18.03.2004.)

Good links for general overview of HGP:

• Department of Energy
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• BBC News
• The Wellcome Trust
• The Sanger Institute
• NHGRI (National Human Genome Research Institute)

Specific links & references (listed by page order):

Introduction

Offline material:

• British Medical Association (1998) Human Genetics: Choice and Responsibility. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• Wade, N. (2001) Life Script: The Genome and The New Medicine. Simon & Schuster Inc., London.

Online sources:

• http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/timeline.shtml
  (HGP timeline).
• http://www.genome.gov/Pages/EducationKit/download.html.
  (downloadable "Milestones in Genetics" timeline)
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Web/Newsltr/Summer03/index.html
  (downloading the human genome sequence)
• See the links above for good overviews of the HGP.

ELSI

Offline material:

• British Medical Association (1998) Human Genetics: Choice and Responsibility. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
• De Witte, J. I. & Ten Have, H. (1997) Ownership of genetic material and information. Soc. Sci. Med. 45: 51-60.
• McLean, S. A. M. (1994) Mapping the human genome - friend or foe? Soc. Sci. Med. 39: 1221-1227.
• Wade, N. (2001) Life Script: The Genome and The New Medicine. Simon & Schuster Inc., London.

Online sources:

• http://www.genome.gov/10001793
• http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.shtml
• http://www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/elsi.html

Medicine & Healthcare

Offline material:

• Collins, F. S. (1999) Shattuck lecture - medical and societal consequences of the human genome project. New England Journal of Medicine. 341: 28-37.
• Beller, G. A. (2000) President's page: the human genome project: implications for cardiologists and their patients. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 36: 295-298.
• Perpich, J. G. (2004) The dawn of genomic and regenerative medicine: new paradigms for medicine, the public's health, and society. Technology in Society. 26 (in print; feb27).
• Falcon de Vargas, A. (2002) The human genome project and its importance in clinical medicine. International Congress Series. 1237: 3-13.
• Wattanapitayakul, S. K. & Bauer, J. A. (2000) Recent developments in gene therapy for cardiac disease. Biomed. & Pharmacother. 54: 487-504.
• Komajda, M. & Charron, P. (2001) In the heart of genomics. Nature Medicine. 7: 287-288.

Online sources:

• http://www.genome.gov/Pages/Education/Kit/main.cfm?pageid=91
• http://www.laskerfoundation.com/reports/jama_lasker/v285n5/ffull/jsc00413.html
• http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/medicine/genetherapy.shtml
• http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2827.html
• http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SU/genebp1199.html

Pharmacogenomics

Offline material:

• Mohrenweiser, H. W. (2003) Pharmacogenomics: pharmacology and toxicology in the genomics era. In Pharmacogenomics: Social Ethical and Clinical Dimensions. pp 29-49. (ed. M. A. Rothstein) Wiley-Liss Inc., New Jersey.
• Preskorn, S.H. (2000) The stages of drug development and the human genome project: drug discovery. Journal of Practical Psychiatry and Behavioral Health. 341-344.
• Reiss, T. (2001) Drug discovery of the future: the implication of the human genome project. Trends in Biotechnology. 19: 496-499.
  

Online sources:

• http://www.ibmsscience.org/general/pharmacogenomics.htm
• http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/medicine/pharma.shtml
• http://www.investinbiotech.com/samples/1303.html
• http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/2306.html
  

Psychiatry

Offline material:

• Maxwell Cowan, W. Kopnisky, K. L. and Hyman S. E. (2002) The human genome and its impact on psychiatry. Ann. Rev. Neuroscience. 25, 1-50.
• Evans, K. L et al. (2001) Nuts and bolts of psychiatric genetics: building on the human genome project. Trends in Genetics. 17: 35-40.

Online sources:

• http://www.apa.org/science/genetics/
• http://mentalhealth.about.com/library/sci/0201/blgenedrug201.htm

Gender & Ethnicity

Offline material:

• Cassel, C. K. (1997) Policy implications of the HGP for Women. Womens Health Issues. 7: 225-229.
• Mahowald, M. B. (1997) An overview of the human genome project and its implications for women. Womens Health Issues. 7: 206-208.
• Mahowald, M. B. (1997) Gender justice in genetics. Women Health Issues. 7: 230-233.
• Olsen, S. (2003) Mapping Human History p208-220. Houghton-Mifflin Company, New York.

Online sources:

• http://www.cwhn.ca/groups/biotech/availdocs/genome.htm
• http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/index.shtml
• http://www.genome.gov/10001192
• http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/minorities.shtml

Glossary

• http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/glossary/ (extensive glossary on genetics)