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Breaching Confidentiality in Genetic and Non-Genetic Cases: Two Problematic Distinctions

20 Aug 2024

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Ethical questions about confidentiality arise when patients refuse to inform relatives who are at risk of a genetic condition. Specifically, healthcare providers may struggle with the permissibility of breaching confidentiality to warn patients' at-risk relatives. In exploring this issue, several authors have converged around the idea that genetic cases differ from non-genetic cases (e.g., involving a threat of...

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PMID: 39163254
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2388719

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