First Class, First Essay, Current Headline

It's the Friday before our first class and the topic of our first essay assignment is back in the news. Jesse Gelsinger died in a Phase I gene therapy trial in 1999 and his case is the focus of our first unit. The January 2008 edition of the journal Human Gene Therapy includes an editorial and several commentaries of interest to us. The blog sponsored by The American Journal of Bioethics has several posts on these, including one by the Gelsinger family lawyer and another by Jesse's father.

You can find all the journal articles at http://www.liebertonline.com/toc/hum/19/1

and the blog posts at

http://blog.bioethics.net/2008/01/on-gene-therapy-and-informed-consent/

and

http://blog.bioethics.net/2008/01/on-gene-therapy-and-informed-consent/