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Genetics and personal responsibility for health

3 Apr 2014

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Advances in genetic medicine may have implications for how we should think about personal responsibility for health, because they may show how it is possible to exert some control over risk factors that were previously thought as beyond the individual's control. Although we cannot control the genes that we are born with, we can often make decisions concerning genetic testing, disease prevention, and treatment....

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PMID: 25598702
DOI: 10.1080/14636778.2014.905195

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