ABSTRACT
Pre-genetic society witnessed a global eugenics movement for race and class purposes of creating "fitter families" and for ridding society of those with undesirable traits while increasing those with desirable characteristics and for population control. In 2003, the Human Genome Sequencing Project was completed, an international collaboration for mapping and understanding the design of each cell in the human body, referred to as “the basic set of inheritable ‘instructions’ for the development and function of a human being”. A search of the codes of ethics for social workers in Australia, Sweden, South Africa, Canada, and Singapore gave no results for genetic related ethics. The impact of genomics for the purposes of improving community health also extends globally, primarily through the World Health Organization, as governed by the World Health Assembly working in 150 countries. The public health genomics ethical, legal, and social implications are applied to population genomics.
