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 …

Since the late 1960s, physicians and their colleagues in applied human genetics have
developed a spectrum of direct genetic services. Genetic screening and prenatal diagnosis …

The genomic revolution inherently changes the paradigms that have informed the
interactions between patient and physician. These changes obligate physicians both to …

For several decades, clinical geneticists have espoused two key ethical principles,
nondirectiveness and confidentiality. These principles made a great deal of sense in the …

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 …

Genetic disorders are caused by abnormalities in genes and chromosomes and for the most
part have implications for family members, affecting such matters as confidentiality and …

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 …

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 …

To better understand ethical issues involved in the field of human genetics and promote
debate within the scientific community, the author surveyed scientists who engage in human …

Knowledge of the genetic basis of human diseases is growing rapidly, with important
implications for pre-conceptional, prenatal, and predictive testing. While new genetic testing …