Genetic privacy a challenge to medico-legal norms

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 s...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Laurie, G. T. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2002.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b38548288*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?