BACKGROUND: The discussion of ethical issues in the practice of medical genetics is quite
recent in Mexico. However, in the present report we were able to compare the results …

Herein we discuss Mexican geneticists' views of ethical issues in genetic testing and
screening, analyzing whether eugenic principles are involved in this activity. The information …

Genetic testing is increasingly applied for diagnosis and clinical treatment. In some
countries, genetic counseling services are provided by professionals with specific training in …

Clinical genetics encompasses all ethical issues in medicine and health care. Geneticists,
like all health care practitioners, regularly encounter problems of truth telling, paternalism …

A first step toward resolving ethical problems in medicine is to discover how clinicians
approach these prob-lems in practice. In a rapidly evolving specialty like medical genetics …

This document is intended for consideration by medical geneticists and by their professional
and scientific organizations. Our purpose, greatly aided by helpful comments from others', is …

Full discussion of the ethical provision of genetic services can take place only with adequate
knowledge of the views and practices of those involved. In order to find out how the various …

In order to provide a basis for international discussion of ethics among geneticists, we
surveyed the responses of medical geneticists to a questionnaire describing 14 hypothetical …

Fletcher, Berg and Tranoy (1985) proposed that medical geneticists around the world would
benefit from collective reflection on their preferred approaches to the most frequent of the …

The international Human Genome Project (HGP) will rapidly make genetic information
available on a worldwide scale previously impossible to imagine. All adults have a right, if …