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@MISC{Bioethics95geneticcounselling,
author = {International Bioethics},
title = {Genetic Counselling},
year = {1995}
}
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Abstract
This report on genetic counselling and its bioethical implications, is a natural extension of the 1994 Reports on genetic screening and testing, and on gene therapy(1, 2), because it addresses the impact that these fields of science have on the individual person (born or to-be-born) and sometimes on Society. The increasing availability of genetic tests confers to the speciality of genetic counselling a fast growing place in medical practice. Genetic counselling provides the link between genetic technologies, several of which have been acquired through the Human Genome Project, and patient care. It can be defined as a communication process which involves diagnosis, explanation and options (Section II.1). This Report examines first the scope and practice of genetic counselling today, then bioethical issues related to scientific questions, to welfare of the persons receiving counselling (counsellees or consultands) and finally to moral issues for society at large. I. The Scope of Genetic Counselling The genetic tests listed in the 1994 Report(1) of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO (IBC) to which several new DNA tests can be added in 1995, indicate that it is
Keyphrases
genetic counselling medical practice genetic test genetic screening section ii gene therapy individual person genetic counselling today bioethical implication international bioethics committee bioethical issue scientific question moral issue genetic test confers communication process patient care genetic technology several new dna test human genome project natural extension
