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Genetic Testing : Accounts of Autonomy, Responsibility and Blame

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
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)
Ksh 28,800.00
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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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