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Ethical issues in genetics of mental disorders

Ethical issues in genetics of mental disorders
Ethical issues in genetics of mental disorders
Most doctors regularly come across some form of ethical dilemma. The rapid accumulation of genetic knowledge has added a new dimension to the ethical dilemmas confronting medical practice. The advances have reached a transitional stage, at which the amount of knowledge on genes and their contribution to disease is rising exponentially, but how to use the information for the benefit of patients is commonly far from clear. Genetic information is usually personalised in a way that information about ...
0140-6736
1004-1005
Lucassen, Anneke
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Lucassen, Anneke
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Lucassen, Anneke (1998) Ethical issues in genetics of mental disorders. The Lancet, 352 (9133), 1004-1005. (doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)60071-2).

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Most doctors regularly come across some form of ethical dilemma. The rapid accumulation of genetic knowledge has added a new dimension to the ethical dilemmas confronting medical practice. The advances have reached a transitional stage, at which the amount of knowledge on genes and their contribution to disease is rising exponentially, but how to use the information for the benefit of patients is commonly far from clear. Genetic information is usually personalised in a way that information about ...

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Published date: 26 September 1998
Organisations: Clinical Neurosciences

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Local EPrints ID: 181299
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/181299
ISSN: 0140-6736
PURE UUID: 7388dccf-5868-4b81-97ff-627ca9bd2e9f
ORCID for Anneke Lucassen: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-3324-4338

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Date deposited: 14 Apr 2011 08:11
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:11

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