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Ethical and social issues on the human genome analysis
Questões éticas e sociais da análise do genoma humano
1992
Acta Médica Portuguesa
Questões éticas e sociais da análise do genoma humano
The modern technologies for human genome analysis raise a variety of ethical and social questions. The pre-symptomatic diagnostic of diseases of late expression is becoming possible for a rapidly increasing number of situations. The use of that knowledge by employers, insurance companies, schools, and society in general, could lead to discriminations and stigmatizations, in addition to adverse psychological reactions. DNA fingerprinting raises questions of privacy and personal autonomy in its
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