Congressional Hearing on the Possible Uses & Misuses of Genetic Information, Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture, Testimony of Bernadine Healy, Nancy Wexler (ELSI) testimony ("Wise Hearing"), 1991-10-17

File — Box: EJ-14, Folder: 23

Identifier: 23

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Nancy Wexler, Chairperson of Joint NIH/DOE Working Group on the Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues of the Human Genome Project, statement before U.S. House of Representatives ("Wise Hearing"), October 17, 1991

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Elke Jordan, Ph.D. was Deputy Director at the National Human Genome Research Institute from 1988-2002, almost the entirety of the Human Genome Project. Her collection contains a wide variety of files from the HGP and before, including correspondence, meeting notes, memos, and important planning documents.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Numerous items described in the finding aid have not been digitized and there is no guarantee that any specific file or folder will be able to be made available. However the vast majority of the files have been digitized and are available.

Dates

Creation: 1991-10-17

Conditions Governing Access

This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential individual and patient information, as well as sensitive information about the grant funding process, that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. As such we are unable to make fully available publicly much of these materials. Those that have been made available have been carefully redacted so as to remove all personally identifiable information (PII).

Researchers can request access to items through this site but should be aware that many items will require extensive redactions, or in some cases will be unable to be made available. In these cases, NHGRI History of Genomics staff will work with researchers as much as possible to fullfill requests but we cannot guarantee full compliance with every request.