Difficult decisions: Social and ethical implications of changing medical technology

Community Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 110-119

  Chapman, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethical dilemmas; Genetic counselling; Images of genetic conditions; Pain; Prenatal testing; Quality of life; Technological advances

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; PAIN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; AGE OF ONSET; ATTITUDE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INTERVIEWS; PAIN; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0036971383     PISSN: 14222795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000065166     Document Type: Article

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