Narrating the New Predictive Genetics - Ethics, Ethnography and Science (Hardcover, New)

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? And for society more widely? How should this new information be used? How do people deal with the choices that new knowledge and technologies offer? Drawing on extensive ethnographic research with families affected by Huntington's Disease, and using perspectives from medical and cultural anthropology, the author explores the huge disparity between the experience of living with the results of genetic testing and the knowledge and expertise which are drawn on to develop policy and clinical services.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences
Release date:	February 2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	Monica Konrad
Dimensions:	235 x 158 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-83314-1
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
LSN:	0-521-83314-0
Barcode:	9780521833141

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