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Genetic counselling : practice and principles / edited by Angus Clarke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Professional ethics.
- Professional ethics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetic counseling--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Genetic counseling.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 pages) : illustrations, charts
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contributions to this study are drawn both from health professionals engaged in genetic counselling and from observers and critics with backgrounds in law, philosophy, biology, and the social sciences. This diversity will enable health professonials to examine their activities with a fresh eye, and will help the observer-critic to understand the ethical problems that arise in genetic counselling practice, rather than in imaginary encounters. Most examinations of the ethical issues raised by genetics are concerned in a broad sense with the application of new technology to human reproduction.
- Contents:
- ""Book Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Series-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Notes on contributors""; ""General editors' foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 Genetic counselling: A medical perspective""; ""Chapter 2 Genetic counselling: A nurse's perspective""; ""Chapter 3 Predictive testing of adults and children""; ""Chapter 4 Ethical issues in newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: The question of informed consent""; ""Chapter 5 Termination of a second-trimester pregnancy for fetal abnormality: Psychosocial aspects"" ""Chapter 6 Lessons from a dark and distant past"" ""Chapter 7 Prenatal genetic testing and screening: Constructing needs and reinforcing inequities""; ""Chapter 8 Medical genetics and mental handicap""; ""Chapter 9 The rights and interests of children and those with a mental handicap""; ""Chapter 10 Confidentiality in genetic counselling""; ""Chapter 11 Genetic reductionism and medical genetic practice""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-89057-5
- 1-134-89058-3
- 1-283-70789-6
- 1-282-31992-2
- 9786612319921
- 0-203-01939-3
- 9780203019399
- OCLC:
- 817916012
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