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Becoming in-formed: genetic counselling, ambiguity and choice.

Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy - 1 Mar 2007

Latimer Joanna

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The paper presents findings from an ethnography of dysmorphology, a specialism in genetic medicine, to explore genetic counselling as a process through which parents 'become informed.' Current professional and policy debate over the use of genetic technology in medicine emphasises the need for informed choice making, and for genetic services that provide parents with what is referred to as 'non-directive genetic...

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PMID: 17373128
DOI: 10.1007/s10728-006-0035-3

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