Narrating the New Predictive Genetics: Ethics, Ethnography and Science

by Monica Konrad

Book Overview

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 use of the information by family members and other third parties. What are the implications of this knowledge for individuals and their families?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521540666
• ISBN13: 9780521540667
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"