Purpose The extent of the responsibility of health-care professionals (HCPs) to ensure that
patients' relatives are told of their risk is unclear. Current international guidelines take …

The question of what it means to be human surfaces time and again in periods of important
technological change. As if, once detached from the labor of their creation, technologies …

Abstract Throughout the Global North, policymakers invest in large-scale integration of
health-data infrastructures to facilitate the reuse of clinical data for administration, research …

The acquisition of genetic information (GI) confronts both the affected individuals and
healthcare providers with difficult, ambivalent decisions. Genetic responsibility (GR) has …

Biomedical research aimed at the development of therapies for chronic and late‐onset
conditions increasingly concentrates on the early treatment of symptom‐less disease. This …

Advances in molecular genetics have led to the increasing availability of genetic testing for a
variety of inherited disorders. While this new knowledge presents many obvious health …

This paper follows up a recent debate on the potential of non-representational theory in
health geography (see Andrews et al 2014; Kearns 2014; Hanlon 2014; Andrews 2014c) by …

In recent decades a model of healthy citizenship has emerged, which construes citizens as
autonomous, responsible and active participants in the management of their health. While …

Purpose Although the term “responsibility” plays a central role in bioethics and public health,
its meaning and implications are often unclear. This paper defends the importance of a more …

The interpretation of genetic information in clinical settings raises moral issues about
adequate risk communication and individual responsibility about one's health behavior …