A philosophical critique of decision analysis as a tool in genetic testing.

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Decision analysis has been proposed as a method to improve the quality of decisions made by individuals facing choices about genetic testing for Alzheimer disease (AD) and other conditions where information about risk is highly uncertain. This paper provides a philosophical critique of two schools of decision analysis, explaining the conceptual limitations inherent in each approach. A central difference between...

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