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Rights and Responsibilities in the New Genetics Era

2003-05-01

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This article critically explores the distribution of rights and responsibilities associated with recent developments in genetic testing and DNA donation. The author identifies two key discourses in various accounts of genetics in the clinical and policy domains: patients' rights to informed choice and the public's right to involvement in policy decisions. However, other discourses among professionals, patients and...

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Literature Corpus work: f86a9d55-810d-50ff-a96c-45004120ea61
DOI: 10.1177/0261018303023002005

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