Many ethical and social issues arise within clinical genetic practice for practitioners and their
clients. Patients confront questions about their possible obligations to generate personal …

Difficult ethical issues arise for patients and professionals in medical genetics, and often
relate to the patient's family or their social context. Tackling these issues requires sensitivity …

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 …

Ethical issues in genetics have received considerable attention in the last few years due to
the existence of the Human Genome Project. This 15-year, federally funded project has the …

Ethical Issues in Clinical Genetics Page 198 Section 2 Consultation Chapter Ethical Issues in
Clinical Genetics Thomas May, Kelly East, Whitley Kelley, and Jana Craig 21 Objectives Upon …

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 …

Advances in understanding genetic disorders have been rapid in the last few years and with
them the need and desire for genetic counselling have grown. Almost simultaneously …

A Witness Seminar on the emergence of complex ethical issues in clinical genetics practice,
the evolution of these issues over several decades of advances in medical genetics …

This document is nợt a formal publication of the World Haalth 0rganization (WH0), and all
rights are reserved by the Organization. Thé diturrent may, however, bệ fraély reviewed …

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 …