Recommended Citation
Seethal Jose, Juli Bollinger, Gail Geller, Jeremy Greene, Leslie Meltzer Henry, Brian Hutler, Eric Thomas Juengst, Jeffrey Kahn, Anna Mastroianni, and Graham Mooney, Blurring Boundaries: A Proposed Research Agenda for Ethical, Legal, Social, and Historical Studies at the Intersection of Infectious and Genetic Disease, 52 J.L. Med. & Ethics 443 (2024), https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/faculty-articles/1145
Publication Title
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Keywords
COVID-19, ELSI, Host Genomics, Infectious Disease, Research Agenda
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Contemporary understanding of the mechanisms of disease increasingly points to examples of “genetic diseases” with an infectious component and of “infectious diseases” with a genetic component. Such blurred boundaries generate ethical, legal, and social issues and highlight historical contexts that must be examined when incorporating host genomic information into the prevention, outbreak control, and treatment of infectious diseases.