Bioethicists Use Theatrical Narratives to Bridge the Gap between Society and Science

April 25, 2014

(Medical Xpress) – A pair of bioethics experts have added “playwright” to their resumes in an effort to aid the genomics community in grappling with an onslaught of ethical issues as genomic science transitions to bedside healthcare, a decade after the human genome was first sequenced. Until now the plays of Karen H. Rothenberg and Lynn W. Bush have been performed for, and by, their peers and others in the genomics community at global conferences, meetings and in classrooms.