Narrating the new predictive genetics : ethics, ethnography, and science / Monica Konrad.
"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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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in society and the life sciences.
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "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, confidentiality and the use of information by family members and other third parties. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with families affected by Huntington's Disease and using perspectives from medical and cultural anthropology, the author explores the huge disparity between the experience of living with the results of genetic testing and the knowledge and expertise which are drawn on to develop policy and clinical services."--Jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511080891 9780511080890 0511170920 9780511170928 0511196474 9780511196478 0511584180 9780511584183 0521540666 9780521540667 1280437170 9781280437175 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511584183 |