How Much Control Do Children and Adolescents Have over Genomic Testing, Parental Access to Their Results, and Parental Communication of Those Results to Others?

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 538-544

  Clayton, Ellen Wright ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DEATH; ETHICS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MINOR (PERSON); PARENT; PATIENT RIGHT; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COMMUNICATION; DEATH; DISCLOSURE; GENETIC TESTING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MINORS; PARENTS; PATIENT RIGHTS; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE;

EID: 84944680612     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: 1748720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jlme.12296     Document Type: Article

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