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and she may want to comment.
And then there are some other problems that
have been mentioned. Gene patenting, bioethical issues in
behavioral research. I have these lower down on the list
because there is limit but behavioral research does not fit
well into the biomedical model. It has always had
discomforts in IRB's and yet an alternative is not clear.
And then there is compensation for research related
injuries which also keeps coming up and subsiding back down
again. I think because nobody can figure out what to do.
There are larger areas. The right to health
care. The previous national commission articulated the
successful -- previously successful one -- articulated
years ago that there was a -- that the nation had an
ethical obligation to ensure equitable access to medical
care. It is now 20 years later. Lots of things have
changed. Inequity persists and grows, in fact, and while
it is a problem there is a question of whether we should
take it up and if we took it up towards what end and what
resolution, and what will become out of it.
Alta Charo raised the question about the
interesting issue about who owns the body as a larger
question. There are major cultural differences in what
your relationship to your body is in terms of ethics and