| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Medical ethics series
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Medical ethics series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book examines how the Human Genome Project will reshape American health care. Leading scholars explore the clinical, ethical, legal, and policy implications of the Genome Project to see how it may affect the forms of health care available, who delivers it, who receives it, and who pays for it. Genetic prediction of future diseases - whether ineluctable certainties such as Huntington's, or uncertain "predispositions" for cancers, heart disease, and the like - will affect how patients and health professionals interact. It may force major reconsideration of certain institutions - such as health, life, and disability insurance - that rely on information about individuals' risks of illness and death. We may question what valid social purposes those institutions play and whether they are likely to become socially and ethically dysfunctional in light of the more extensive predictions that genetic information may make possible. |
| Contents |
Impact of mapping the human genome on the patient-physician relationship / Albert R. Jonsen -- Educating clinicians about genetics / Vincent M. Riccardi -- Medicine, gene therapy, and society / William J. Polvino and W. French Anderson -- Genome Project and health service for minority populations / Herbert Nickens -- Genetics and reproductive decision making / Mary Anne Bobinski -- Access to the genome and federal entitlement programs / Maxwell J. Mehlman -- Implications of the Human Genome Project for access to health insurance / Deborah A. Stone -- Genetics and employment: more disability discrimination / Adrienne Asch -- Human Genome Project and the distribution of scarce medical resources / Norman Daniels -- Human Genome Project: its impact on medical practice / Robert F. Murray, Jr. -- Genome and access to health care: two key ethical issues / Thomas H. Murray -- Genetic factor in health care reform: framing the policy debate / Mark A. Rothstein. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human Genome Project -- Social aspects.
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Human Genome Project. |
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Social aspects. |
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Human Genome Project -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human Genome Project. |
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Human gene mapping -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human gene mapping -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Human gene mapping. |
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Human gene mapping -- Social aspects.
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Human gene mapping -- Social aspects. |
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Genetic Testing. |
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Delivery of Health Care. |
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Ethics. |
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Social Environment. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Murray, Thomas H., 1946-
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Rothstein, Mark A.
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Murray, Robert F., 1931-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Human Genome Project and the future of health care. Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1996 0253332133 (DLC) 96001718 (OCoLC)34151754 |
| ISBN |
0585259658 (electronic book) |
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9780585259659 (electronic book) |
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0253332133 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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