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Informed Consent in the Genetic Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

AMNON GOLDWORTH
AMNON GOLDWORTH
Affiliation:
Lucille Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
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Abstract

As our knowledge of the genetic constitution of human beings expands, testing to determine an individual's disposition toward a given disease will also increase. Since genes are a family affair, to know that an individual is genetically disposed toward a specific disease is an indicator that members of this individual's family may also be so disposed.

Type
GENETHICS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 393 - 400
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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