title: Method and complexity in bioethics: the example of community genetics.
abstract: This article describes the need to develop a new methodology in bioethics that can consider multiple interactions, creativity and the organisation specific to complex systems. Community genetics is taken as an example of complexity in bioethics. Community genetics involves large populations and illustrates certain characteristics of complex adaptive systems which are discussed in the article.
authors.affiliation: Agency for Health Services and Technology Assessment, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: G C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: de Langavant
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D001709:Biotechnology; D016265:Conflict of Interest; D036281:Genetic Research; D005820:Genetic Testing; D005826:Genetics, Medical / Q000191:economics; D005828:Genetics, Population; D019382:Human Growth Hormone; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods
chemical_list: D019382:Human Growth Hormone