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Genetic information: Important but not “exceptional”
2010-07-31
Abstract excerpt
Much legislation dealing with the uses of genetic information could be criticised for exceptionalising genetic information over other types of information personal to the individual. This paper contends that genetic exceptionalism clouds the issues, and precludes any real debate about the appropriate uses of genetic information. An alternative to “genetically exceptionalist” legislation is to “legislate for fairne...
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- Literature Corpus work
- da98a3f0-dca5-5a83-8c15-0dc680efc50c
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12394-010-0070-y