June 13, 2003

Journal Explores the Moral Implications of Technology; New Medical Publication Is Ad-Free

By JENNIFER K. RUARK and LILA GUTERMAN

A DIFFERENT VOICE: Imagine you donate a DNA sample for medical research, assured that your genetic information will remain anonymous. A few months later, you are arrested for attempted murder, accused of knowingly infecting an old girlfriend with HIV. The evidence: the DNA sample you provided, which prosecutors have obtained and analyzed.

Or imagine that, because there is a history of breast cancer in your family, you send a blood sample to a private laboratory to be tested for three