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The Human Genome Project and the future of health care / edited by Thomas H. Murray, Mark A. Rothstein, and Robert F. Murray, Jr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Medical ethics seriesPublication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, �1996.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585259658
  • 9780585259659
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Human Genome Project and the future of health care.DDC classification:
  • 174/.2 20
LOC classification:
  • QH445.2 .H87 1996eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The Impact of mapping the human genome on the patient-physician relationship / Albert R. Jonsen -- Educating clinicians about genetics / Vincent M. Riccardi -- Medicine, gene therapy, and society / William J. Polvino and W. French Anderson -- The Genome Project and health service for minority populations / Herbert Nickens -- Genetics and reproductive decision making / Mary Anne Bobinski -- Access to the genome and federal entitlement programs / Maxwell J. Mehlman -- The Implications of the Human Genome Project for access to health insurance / Deborah A. Stone -- Genetics and employment: more disability discrimination / Adrienne Asch -- The Human Genome Project and the distribution of scarce medical resources / Norman Daniels -- The Human Genome Project: its impact on medical practice / Robert F. Murray, Jr. -- The Genome and access to health care: two key ethical issues / Thomas H. Murray -- The Genetic factor in health care reform: framing the policy debate / Mark A. Rothstein.
Summary: This book examines how the Human Genome Project will reshape American health care. Leading scholars explore the clinical, ethical, legal, and policy implications of the Genome Project to see how it may affect the forms of health care available, who delivers it, who receives it, and who pays for it. Genetic prediction of future diseases - whether ineluctable certainties such as Huntington's, or uncertain "predispositions" for cancers, heart disease, and the like - will affect how patients and health professionals interact. It may force major reconsideration of certain institutions - such as health, life, and disability insurance - that rely on information about individuals' risks of illness and death. We may question what valid social purposes those institutions play and whether they are likely to become socially and ethically dysfunctional in light of the more extensive predictions that genetic information may make possible.
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This book examines how the Human Genome Project will reshape American health care. Leading scholars explore the clinical, ethical, legal, and policy implications of the Genome Project to see how it may affect the forms of health care available, who delivers it, who receives it, and who pays for it. Genetic prediction of future diseases - whether ineluctable certainties such as Huntington's, or uncertain "predispositions" for cancers, heart disease, and the like - will affect how patients and health professionals interact. It may force major reconsideration of certain institutions - such as health, life, and disability insurance - that rely on information about individuals' risks of illness and death. We may question what valid social purposes those institutions play and whether they are likely to become socially and ethically dysfunctional in light of the more extensive predictions that genetic information may make possible.

The Impact of mapping the human genome on the patient-physician relationship / Albert R. Jonsen -- Educating clinicians about genetics / Vincent M. Riccardi -- Medicine, gene therapy, and society / William J. Polvino and W. French Anderson -- The Genome Project and health service for minority populations / Herbert Nickens -- Genetics and reproductive decision making / Mary Anne Bobinski -- Access to the genome and federal entitlement programs / Maxwell J. Mehlman -- The Implications of the Human Genome Project for access to health insurance / Deborah A. Stone -- Genetics and employment: more disability discrimination / Adrienne Asch -- The Human Genome Project and the distribution of scarce medical resources / Norman Daniels -- The Human Genome Project: its impact on medical practice / Robert F. Murray, Jr. -- The Genome and access to health care: two key ethical issues / Thomas H. Murray -- The Genetic factor in health care reform: framing the policy debate / Mark A. Rothstein.

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