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When information can save lives: the duty to warn relatives about sudden cardiac death and environmental risks.

The Hastings Center report - 1 Jan 2000

Elger Bernice, Michaud Katarzyna, Mangin Patrice

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In certain cases of sudden death, forensic experts may discover during an investigation or autopsy that family members of the deceased are also at risk of harm-from genetic disease, for instance. But do they have a duty to warn them? Looking at similar duties of physicians and researchers to warn...

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PMID: 20545107
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0254

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