Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Com... - 9780367356699

Taylor & Francis

Ethical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk CommunicationAuthor(s): Ulrik Kihlbom, Mats G. Hansson, Silke Schicktanz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367356699, 978-0367356699\nSynopsis\nThis volume presents the ethical implications of risk information as related to genetics and other health data for policy decisions at clinical, research and societal levels. \n\nEthical, Social and Psychological Impacts of Genomic Risk Communication examines the introduction of new types of health risk information based on faster, cheaper and larger sets of genetic or genomic analysis. Synthesizing the results of a five-year interdisciplinary project, it explores the unsolved ethical and social questions around the sharing of this data, such as: What is best practice in risk communication? What are the normative presumptions and ethical consequences of an increased individual responsibility for ones health? And how.