Personalized Genomic Medicine and the Rhetoric of Empowerment

Hastings Center Report

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 34-40

  Juengst, Eric T ^a   Flatt, Michael A ^a   Settersten, Richard A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; PATIENT; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

GENETIC TESTING; GENOMICS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENTS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84867376637     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: 1552146X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hast.65     Document Type: Article

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