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Genetic counselling : practice and principles

Title: Genetic counselling : practice and principles / edited by Angus Clarke.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, c1994.

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Additional Authors

Clarke, Angus, 1954-

Description

xi, 266 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Professional ethics

Uniform Title

Professional ethics.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. Genetic counselling: a medical perspective / A. Caroline Berry -- 2. Genetic counselling: a nurse's perspective / Ann Williams -- Appendix: Guidelines for clinical research workers / Ann Williams and Helen Hughes -- 3. Predictive testing of adults and children / David Ball, Audrey Tyler and Peter Harper -- Appendix: Research samples from families with genetic disease. Do we need a code of conduct? / Peter Harper -- 4. Ethical issues in newborn screening for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: the question of informed consent / Evelyn Parsons and Don Bradley -- 5. Termination of a second-trimester pregnancy for fetal abnormality: psychosocial aspects / Margaretha White-van Mourik -- 6. Lessons from a dark and distant past / Benno Muller-Hill -- 7. Prenatal genetic testing and screening: constructing needs and reinforcing inequities / Abby Lippman -- 8. Medical genetics and mental handicap / Lydia Sinclair and Matthew Griffiths.
9. The rights and interests of children and those with a mental handicap / Jonathan Montgomery -- 10. Confidentiality in genetic counselling / Paula Boddington -- 11. Genetic reductionism and medical genetic practice / Maureen Ramsay.

ISBN

LCCN

93005884

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Columbia University Libraries