Genetic Testing : Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame

Name: Genetic Testing
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780415474436
Price: 30950 KES
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ISBN: 9780415474436

by Angus Clarke , Michael Arribas-Ayllon , Srikant Sarangi

Book Details

Format Hardback

Book Series Genetics and Society

ISBN-10 0415474434

ISBN-13 9780415474436

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Routledge

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 4th, 2011

Print length 214 Pages

Weight 486 grams

Dimensions 16.10 x 23.60 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Genetics (non-medical)

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Critically engages with the relational, moral and ethical issues surrounding genetic testing in contemporary society. In this book, competing accounts of autonomy, responsibility and blame - by families, by professionals and in the public sphere - are analysed rigorously within a discourse-rhetorical framework.

Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health benefits to prospective individuals and their families it also raises complex ethical and moral dilemmas for families as well as genetic professionals.

This book explores the ways in which genetic testing generates not only probabilities of potential futures, but also enjoys new forms of social, individual and professional responsibility. Concerns about confidentiality and informed consent involving children, the assessment of competence and maturity, the ability to engage in shared decision-making through acts of disclosure and choice, are just some of the issues that are examined in detail.

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