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Genetic privacy : a challenge to medico-legal norms /
The phenomenon of the New Genetics raises complex social problems, particularly those of privacy. This book offers ethical and legal perspectives on the questions of a right to know and not to know genetic information from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, employers, insurers and the s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The phenomenon of the New Genetics raises complex social problems, particularly those of privacy. This book offers ethical and legal perspectives on the questions of a right to know and not to know genetic information from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, employers, insurers and the state. Graeme Laurie provides a unique definition of privacy, including a concept of property rights in the person, and argues for stronger legal protection of privacy in the shadow of developments in human genetics. He challenges the role and the limits of established principles in medical law and ethics, including respect for patient autonomy and confidentiality. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxv, 335 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511019696 9780511019692 0521660270 9780521660273 0511157398 9780511157394 0511176511 9780511176517 9780511495342 051149534X 1107117771 9781107117778 1280420774 9781280420771 0511325568 9780511325564 0511048483 9780511048487 |