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Perspectives on genetic discrimination /
Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this ""genetic discrimination"" ranges from disadvantages at work, via...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
| Publicado: |
New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in sociology ;
100. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this ""genetic discrimination"" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with insurance policies, to difficulties with adoption agencies. The empirical studies on the problem of genetic discrimination have not gone unnoticed. Since the beginning of the 1990s, a series of legislative initiatives and statements, both on the national level and on the part of international a. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (163 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1134056915 9781134056910 |