New Tools, New Dilemmas: Genetic Frontiers

Kathleen Nolan, S. P. Swenson

The Hastings Center Report · 1988 · 20 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

The powerful new methods, expansive scope, and accelerated pace of human molecular genetics combine to catapult us into ethically unfamiliar territory. These features lend special urgency to questions of genetic ownership and privacy, disease and normalcy, identity and genetic determinism, and early diagnosis and therapy.

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