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The geneticization of diagnostics.

Medicine, health care, and philosophy - 1 Jan 2006

Stempsey William E

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"Geneticization" is a term used to describe the ways in which the science of genetics is influencing society at large and medicine in particular; it has important implications for the process of diagnostics. Because genetic diagnostics produces knowledge about genetic disease and predisposition t...

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PMID: 16850199
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-005-5292-7

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