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March 01, 2005
Huntington's Used In Online Ethical Game
From Deutsche-Welle:
Should insurance companies record a patient's DNA? Should people use medicines that were derived from stem cell research? A new German online game, "gen.ethix," lets users ponder difficult bioethics questions.Lisa and Monika's mother was not yet 50 years old when she was committed to a nursing home. The reason? She had Huntington's Disease, an illness in which the patient increasingly loses control of his or her body and mental faculties. Her two daughters have a 50 percent chance of getting the disease as well, which begs the ethical question: Should they undergo genetic testing for the disease?
This fictional situation is just one of several posed to people who play "gen.ethix." The online game -- only available in a German-language version -- asks players to make decisions on questions of the future of biotechnology.
Posted by Dave at March 1, 2005 06:11 AM
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Hi Dave,
There is also an English version on this, here's the link:
http://www.bioethik-diskurs.de/genethix_e/genethix.html
Best wishes, Gerard
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at March 1, 2005 02:26 PM
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