Discussions about ethics are important in many aspects of health care but are especially critical when the health care includes genetic testing. There are several aspects of genetic testing that ...

One devastating genetic disorder that exemplifies these difficult ethical and social concerns ... In summary, the choice to undergo genetic testing is a highly personal one. A person's decision ...

Yet, the principles of autonomy, informed consent, privacy/confidentiality, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice are basic to any discussion of the ethics involved in genetic testing.

At the same time, many have raised concerns that genetic testing and sequencing reveal intensely personal and private information. As these technologies become increasingly available as consumer ...

The advent of this commercial offer of genetic testing, raises some new and not so new ethical, legal and social issues (ELSI). In this presentation, I will describe the phenomena of DTC genetic ...

Sharing Genetic Information To better understand the ethical difficulties associated with a condition like SMA, suppose that a couple who has one child with SMA decides to undergo genetic testing ...

The right to know and RbG studies With every year of genetic advances, predictive genetic testing moves closer to reality, triggering ethical conflicts, including the clash between the Hippocratic ...

Advances in human genetics and genomics are beginning to move outside the traditional realm of medicine and into the classroom. How will educational officials react when asked to incorporate ...

It could prevent misinterpretation of research findings of race as genetics. Using race as an easy attribute to study the effect of social and environmental issues like poverty or discrimination ...