Ethical Dilemmas in Genetics and Genetic Counseling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethical Dilemmas in Genetics and Genetic Counseling write by Janice L. Berliner. This book was released on 2014-09-25. Ethical Dilemmas in Genetics and Genetic Counseling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By using a creative approach that focuses on a single extended family as a case example to illustrate each chapter's key point, the authors elucidate ethical issues arising in the genetics clinic and laboratory surrounding many timely issues.
Assessing Genetic Risks
Assessing Genetic Risks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Assessing Genetic Risks write by Institute of Medicine. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Assessing Genetic Risks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Raising hopes for disease treatment and prevention, but also the specter of discrimination and "designer genes," genetic testing is potentially one of the most socially explosive developments of our time. This book presents a current assessment of this rapidly evolving field, offering principles for actions and research and recommendations on key issues in genetic testing and screening. Advantages of early genetic knowledge are balanced with issues associated with such knowledge: availability of treatment, privacy and discrimination, personal decision-making, public health objectives, cost, and more. Among the important issues covered: Quality control in genetic testing. Appropriate roles for public agencies, private health practitioners, and laboratories. Value-neutral education and counseling for persons considering testing. Use of test results in insurance, employment, and other settings.
Prescribing Our Future
Prescribing Our Future - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prescribing Our Future write by Diane M. Bartells. This book was released on 2020-04-30. Prescribing Our Future available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Genetic counselors translate the findings of scientific investigation into meaningful accounts that enable individuals and families to make decisions about their lives. This collection of original papers explores the history, values, and norms of that process, with some focus on the value of nondirectiveness in counseling practice. The contributors; examination of genetic counseling issues serves as a foundation from which to address other ethical, legal, and policy considerations in the expanding universe of clinical genetics.
Contemporary Bioethics
Contemporary Bioethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contemporary Bioethics write by Mohammed Ali Al-Bar. This book was released on 2015-05-27. Contemporary Bioethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s special gifts to human beings, God’s revelation as given to the prophets is the supernatural source of divine guidance through which human communities have been guided at all times through history. The second part of the book concentrates on the objectives of Islamic religious practice – the maqa' sid – which include: Preservation of Faith, Preservation of Life, Preservation of Mind (intellect and reason), Preservation of Progeny (al-nasl) and Preservation of Property. Lastly, the third part of the book discusses selected topical issues, including abortion, assisted reproduction devices, genetics, organ transplantation, brain death and end-of-life aspects. For each topic, the current medical evidence is followed by a detailed discussion of the ethical issues involved.
Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective
Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective write by Dorothy C. Wertz. This book was released on 2004-11-04. Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations. This book reports and discusses their second and more representative study in 36 nations. The survey focused on actual situations that occur in the practice of medical genetics, presented as case vignettes that can also be used in teaching and policy discussion. Among the issues discussed are privacy, prenatal diagnosis, patient autonomy, directiveness in counseling, sex selection, forensic DNA banking, "genetic discrimination," and "eugenics". This is Dorothy Wertz's final book, as she died in April, 2003. It is a one of a kind cross-cultural study of complex ethical issues in the uses of genetic information. No one else has attempted to look at the international aspects of medical genetics on such a broad scale. The results provide a resource for discussion both within and among nations. Much bioethical and policy discussion now occurs in an information vacuum. The survey showed that what people would do, and their reasons for doing it, differed considerably from what ethicists think they "should" do. Many will be surprised at the results, especially in nations where bioethical discussion is just beginning. Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective is of interest to medical geneticists, genetic counselors, social scientists and anthropologists who study cross-cultural issues, bioethicists and bioethics centers and health policy makers.
