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Genetics and psychiatry: a proposal for the application of the precautionary principle.

Medicine, health care, and philosophy - 1 Aug 2013

Porteri Corinna

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The paper suggests an application of the precautionary principle to the use of genetics in psychiatry focusing on scientific uncertainty. Different levels of uncertainty are taken into consideration--from the acknowledgement that the genetic paradigm is only one of the possible ways to explain psychiatric disorders, via the difficulties related to the diagnostic path and genetic methods, to the value of the...

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PMID: 22460929
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-012-9408-6

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