| Description |
xvii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Medical law and ethics |
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Medical law and ethics.
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| Contents |
The right to know and the right not to know, ten years on / Ruth Chadwick -- Genetic counseling : placing the room in context / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Genetic counselling : clinical settings and constraints / Hansjakob Müller -- Prevention of harmful false diagnosis versus threat by disclosure of an inheritable disease : a medical case / David Winkler and Philippe Lyrer -- Communication yes, but how and what : commentary to the case presented by David Winkler and Philippe Lyrer / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter -- The need for an ethics of kinship : decision stories and patients' context / Rouven Porz -- Testing for susceptibility genes : a cautionary tale / Margaret Lock -- "If only I had (not) known that" about risk-individualisation, chance-specification, and the loss of certainty of not-knowing / Tjeerd Tymstra -- Contribution to disclosure dilemmas in genetic counseling : the symbolic fallout of gene talk / Silja Samerski -- Predictive genetic testing of adolescents at risk of inherited arrhythmic death / Jane Kaye, Michael Parker and Edward Blair -- How legal frameworks construct patterns of liability in genetic counseling : an international perspective / Daniel Wied, Susanne Listl and Maximilian Seibl -- Responsibility towards relatives / Michael Steel -- Careful communication of "bad news" : the cancer experience / Wolf Langewitz -- The responsibility of the truth-teller / Thomas Cerny -- Practising informed choice : decision making and prenatal risk assessment : the Danish experience / Nete Schwennesen, Lene Koch and Mette Nordahl Svendsen -- Receiving and interpreting information : a joint enterprise / Jackie Leach Scully -- Without disclosure, no informed choice / Peter Miny -- Allowing agency : an ethical model for communicating personal genetic information / Christoph Rehmann-Sutter |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Genetic screening -- Law and legislation.
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Genetic counseling -- Law and legislation.
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Medical ethics.
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| Author |
Rehmann-Sutter, Christoph, 1959-
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Müller, Hj. (Hansjakob)
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| LC no. |
2009002176 |
| ISBN |
9780754674511 (alk. paper) |
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0754674517 (alk. paper) |
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