Genetic Counseling - Ethical Challenges and Consequences

List of contents

I: Evolution of Genetic Counseling; 1: Genetic Counseling: Values That Have Mattered; 2: The Training of Genetic Counselors: Origins of a Psychosocial Model; 3: The Workplace Ideology of Genetic Counselors; 4: When Theory Meets Practice: Challenges to the Field of Genetic Counseling; II: Social and Policy Issues in Genetic Counseling; 5: Risk and the Ethics of Genetic Choice; 6: Discrimination Issues and Genetic Screening; 7: Role of Public Policy in Genetic Screening and Counseling; 8: Parables; III: Future Directions and Ethical Challenges in; 9: Genetic Counseling; 10: The Evolution of Nondirectiveness in Genetic Counseling and Implications of the Human Genome Project; 11: Objectivity, Value Neutrality, and Nondirectiveness in Genetic Counseling; 12: Ethical Obligations of Genetic Counselors; 13: Neutrality Is Not Morality: The Ethics of Genetic Counseling; IV: Appendix

About the author

Dianne M. Bartels, Bonnie S. LeRoy, Arthur L. Caplan

Summary

Reprint. Originally published under the title: Prescribing our future. New York: De Gruyter, c1993.

Product details

• Authors: Dianne M. Bartels, Dianne M. Leroy Bartels, Bartels Dianne M., Arthur L. Caplan, Caplan Arthur L., Bonnie S. LeRoy, LeRoy Bonnie S.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138524217
• ISBN: 978-1-138-52421-7
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General