Those who do genetic counseling agree that it should always be done in a morally neutral
manner. This is reflected in professional discussions of the goals of genetic counseling, in …

The approaches of 295 medical geneticists in the United States to 14 clinical problems and
3 screening situations that required a moral choice aresummarized. These data are part of a …

In recent years, medical scientists have identified a large genetic cc number of genetic
mutations asso- value-n ciated with disease. This research has focused on a broad range of …

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 …

With the ever increasing advancements in prenatal medical research and technology, carrier
screening, and in utero fetal therapy, prospective parents now more than ever can better …

Highlights•Genetic science and technologies have made impressive progress in the past
decades.•New technologies open the way for the screening of a wide range of genetic …

Clinical geneticists are increasingly confronted with ethical tensions between their
responsibilities to individual patients and to other family members. This paper considers the …

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 …

When physicians view efforts to obtain genetic testing for children as unwise or contrary to
the children's interests, they face difficult problems both of ethics and of communicating with …

Rights, autonomy, privacy, and confidentialityare concepts commonly used in
discussionsconcerning genetic information. When theseconcepts are thought of as denoting …