The Human Genome Project - Threat or promise?

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 505-508

  Carmichael, Barbara ^a  

^a Southend University Hospital NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Choice; Fragile X syndrome; Moral status; The concept of disability; The concept of suffering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL GENETICS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MORALITY; PARENT; SIBLING; SOCIAL ASPECT;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FRAGILE X SYNDROME; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0141990468     PISSN: 09642633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2788.2003.00528.x     Document Type: Article

References (1)

1. Gollust S., Thompson R. & Biesecker B. (2002) Living with Achondroplasia in an Average-Sized World. NHGRI/NIH, Bethesda, MD; Johns Hopkins University School of PublicHealth, Baltimore, MD. Paper presented at European Meeting of Psychosocial Aspects of Genetics, May 2002, Strasbourg.