Prescribing Our Future
Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
186 pages
978-0-202-30453-3 (ISBN)
Description
Genetic counselors translate the findings of scientific investigation into meaningful accounts that enable individuals and families to make decisions about their lives. This collection of original papers explores the history, values, and norms of that process, with some focus on the value of nondirectiveness in counseling practice. The contributors; examination of genetic counseling issues serves as a foundation from which to address other ethical, legal, and policy considerations in the expanding universe of clinical genetics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Somerset
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-202-30453-3 (9780202304533)
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Persons
Dianne M. Bartels is Associate Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota. A member of the University of Minnesota's Biomedical Ethics Committee since 1982, she is also a founding member of the Minnesota Network of Institutional Ethics Committees. She is a coauthor of Beyond Baby M: Ethical Issues .in New Reproductive Techniques. Bonnie S. LeRoy is a Genetic Counselor, Director of the Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling, and Associate of the Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota. Her interests include psychosocial, ethical, and legal issues in genetic counseling. She has published numerous journal articles. Arthur L. Caplan is Director, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota. A professor of Surgery and Philosophy, he is the author of numerous books and over 300 journal articles. Among his most recent books are If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas, and Other Essays on Medical Ethics; When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust; Scientific Controversies; and (is a coauthor) Beyond Baby M: Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques.
Content
List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- I. Evolution of Genetic Counseling -- 1 Genetic Counseling: Values That Have Mattered/James R. Sorenson -- 2 The Training of Genetic Counselors: Origins of a Psychosocial Model/Joan H. Marks -- 3 The Workplace Ideology of Genetic Counselors/Charles L. Bosk -- 4 When Theory Meets Practice: Challenges to the Field of Genetic Counseling/Bonnie S. LeRoy -- II. Social and Policy Issues in Genetic Counseling -- 5 Risk and the Ethics of Genetic Choice/Marc happe -- 6 Discrimination Issues and Genetic Screening/Dan Farber -- 7 Role of Public Policy in Genetic Screening and Counseling/Phyllis Kahn -- 8 Parables/Walter E. Nance -- III. Future Directions and Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling -- 9 The Impact of the Human Genome Project for Genetic Counseling Services/Harry T. On -- 10 The Evolution of Nondirectiveness in Genetic Counseling and Implications of the Human Genome Project/Beth A. Fine -- 11 Objectivity, Value Neutrality, and Nondirectiveness in Genetic Counseling/Karen Grandstrand Gervais -- 12 Ethical Obligations of Genetic Counselors/LeRoy Walters -- 13 Neutrality Is Not Morality: The Ethics of Genetic Counseling/Arthur L. Caplan -- IV. Appendix -- Appendix A -- National Society of Genetic Counselors Code of Ethics -- References -- Index.