Article
The geneticization of diagnostics.
Medicine, health care, and philosophy - 1 Jan 2006
Stempsey William E
Abstract excerpt
"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 to disease, it is essentially influenced by these innovations in the disease concept. In this paper, I argue that...
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