Genetic privacy : a challenge to medico-legal norms / Graeme Laurie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laurie, G. T. (Graeme T.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genetic engineering--Law and legislation.

Genetic engineering.

Genetic screening--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genetic screening.

Privacy, Right of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 335 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The phenomenon of the New Genetics raises complex social problems, particularly those of privacy. This book offers ethical and legal perspectives on the questions of a right to know and not to know genetic information from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, employers, insurers and the state. Graeme Laurie provides a unique definition of privacy, including a concept of property rights in the person, and argues for stronger legal protection of privacy in the shadow of developments in human genetics. He challenges the role and the limits of established principles in medical law and ethics, including respect for patient autonomy and confidentiality. This book will interest lawyers, philosophers and doctors concerned both with genetic information and issues of privacy; it will also interest genetic counsellors, researchers, and policy makers worldwide for its practical stance on dilemmas in modern genetic medicine.

Contents:

Privacy: the general part

1. Health care, patient rights and privacy

2. Privacy: anti-social concept or fundamental right?

Genetic knowledge: the existing models

3. Human genetics and genetic privacy

4. Autonomy, confidentiality and privacy

A new privacy paradigm

5. Privacy and the public interest

6. Privacy and property?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11777-1

1-280-42077-4

0-511-17651-1

0-511-01969-6

0-511-15739-8

0-511-32556-8

0-511-49534-X

0-511-04848-3

OCLC:

437063300