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Unintended Messages: The Ethics of Teaching Genetic Dilemmas
Author(s) -
GOODING HOLLY C.,
WILFOND BENJAMIN,
BOEHM KARINA,
BIESECKER BARBARA BOWLES
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528522
Subject(s) - test (biology) , psychology , genetic testing , bioethics , eugenics , intellectual disability , social psychology , sociology , engineering ethics , medicine , law , political science , psychiatry , engineering , paleontology , biology
Bioethicists teaching and writing about the uses of prenatal genetic testing sometimes use “difficult cases” in which people with a disability want to test and select for the presence of their disability. Such cases challenge our stereotypes but also play into them.