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Human Genome Project and the Future of Health Care

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ISBN-10: 0253332133

ISBN-13: 9780253332134

Edition: 1996

Authors: Thomas H. Murray, Mark A. Rothstein, Robert F. Murray

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This book examines how the Human Genome Project will reshape American health care. Leading scholars explore the clinical, ethical, legal, and policy implications of the Genome Project to see how it may affect the forms of health care available, who delivers it, who receives it, and who pays for it. Genetic prediction of future diseases - whether ineluctable certainties such as Huntington's, or uncertain "predispositions" for cancers, heart disease, and the like - will affect how patients and health professionals interact. It may force major reconsideration of certain institutions - such as health, life, and disability insurance - that rely on information about individuals' risks of illness…    
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Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/22/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

THOMAS H. MURRAY is Professor and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Case Western Reserve University. MARK A. ROTHSTEIN is Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston. ROBERT F. MURRAY, JR. is Chief of the Division of Medical Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, and Professor of Pediatrics, Medicine, and Genetics at Howard University.