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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826132003321

Autore

Laurie G. T (Graeme T.)

Titolo

Genetic privacy : a challenge to medico-legal norms / / Graeme Laurie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2002

ISBN

1-107-11777-1

1-280-42077-4

0-511-17651-1

0-511-01969-6

0-511-15739-8

0-511-32556-8

0-511-49534-X

0-511-04848-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxv, 335 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

344/.04196

Soggetti

Genetic engineering - Law and legislation

Genetic screening - Moral and ethical aspects

Privacy, Right of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Privacy: the general part -- 1. Health care, patient rights and privacy -- 2. Privacy: anti-social concept or fundamental right? -- Genetic knowledge: the existing models -- 3. Human genetics and genetic privacy -- 4. Autonomy, confidentiality and privacy -- A new privacy paradigm -- 5. Privacy and the public interest -- 6. Privacy and property?

Sommario/riassunto

The phenomenon of the New Genetics raises complex social problems, particularly those of privacy. This book offers ethical and legal perspectives on the questions of a right to know and not to know genetic information from the standpoint of individuals, their relatives, employers, insurers and the state. Graeme Laurie provides a unique definition of privacy, including a concept of property rights in the person, and argues for stronger legal protection of privacy in the shadow of developments in human genetics. He challenges the role and



the limits of established principles in medical law and ethics, including respect for patient autonomy and confidentiality. This book will interest lawyers, philosophers and doctors concerned both with genetic information and issues of privacy; it will also interest genetic counsellors, researchers, and policy makers worldwide for its practical stance on dilemmas in modern genetic medicine.