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Rethinking the 'right not to know'.

Monash bioethics review - 1 Jan 2004

McDougall Rosalind

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The idea that an individual has a 'right not to know' genetic information about himself or herself is entrenched in both the policy sphere and the genetic counselling ethos. In this paper, I interrogate this idea of a 'right not to know', questioning particularly its status as a right. I identify the conception of rights that seems to underlie the posited 'right not to know' as a conception of rights in which...

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PMID: 15835021
DOI: 10.1007/BF03351407

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