Narrating the new predictive genetics : ethics, ethnography, and science /

Narrating the new predictive genetics : ethics, ethnography, and science / Monica Konrad.

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"This book explores the way changes in technology have altered the relationship between ethics and medicine. For some inherited diseases, new genetic testing technologies may provide much more accurate diagnostic and predictive information which raises important questions about consent, confide...

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Main Author: Konrad, Monica (Author)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2005]
Series:Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences.
Subjects:
Human chromosome abnormalities > Diagnosis > Social aspects.
Human chromosome abnormalities > Diagnosis > Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetics, Medical > ethics.
Anthropology, Cultural > ethics
Chromosome Aberrations.
Online Access:Cambridge Books on Core
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Table of Contents:
  • Thinking futures
  • Approaching translocations
  • Foretelling foreknowledge
  • Tracing genealogies of non-disclosure
  • Reproducing exclusion
  • Relinquishing exclusion
  • Concluding remarks.
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