The emergence of the genetic counseling profession has allowed laypeople to understand
and benefit from biological advances, and to make critical decisions about their application …

The American eugenics movement had a significant impact on American social history, and
analysis of the movement illustrates the relationship among science, scientists, and society …

Is genetic counseling a form of eugenics? To some extent, the answer depends upon how
the terms “eugenics” and “genetic counseling” are defined. This paper reviews the eugenic …

Genetic counseling as a recognized, independent medical profession is relatively young.
However, people have used genetic information for quite a long time throughout history. For …

Despite pronounced changes in genetic knowledge and technology, the post–World War II
philosophical stance on “eugenics” has not changed substantially. By the mid-1900s, as …

Contributions to this study are drawn both from health professionals engaged in genetic
counselling and from observers and critics with backgrounds in law, philosophy, biology …

Every science begins in folklore and matures as it reacts against dogma and myth.
Astronomy developed in the Neolithic, but it did not outgrow astrology until the sixteenth …

This is a report published by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation in 1995 about Bioethics, Counselling, Health Services, Health Services …

Sheldon Reed coined the expression “genetic counseling” in 1947, the same year he
succeeded Clarence P. Oliver as Director of the University of Minnesota's Dight Institute for …

The question of what counts as a successful outcome of the process of genetics counselling
has recently become central because of the increasing calls for efficiency in health care, and …