Article
Genetic susceptibility testing: ethical and social quandaries.
Health & social work - 1 Aug 1998
Freedman T G
Abstract excerpt
Breast cancer in the United States continues to be a serious public health problem that affects individuals, families, and society. The simultaneous rapid progress in mapping the human genome, the advances in technology, and the subsequent commercialization of genetic testing have made it possibl...
Topics
- Attitude to Health
- Breast Neoplasms
- Confidentiality
- Counseling
- Ethics, Medical
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- Interviews as Topic
- Ovarian Neoplasms
- Privacy
- Social Perception
- Social Work
- United States