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Book SynopsisContributors from medicine, law, and philosophy query how the growing ability to trace certain diseases and conditions to specific genes might impact the allocation of health care resources, the relationship between patients and physicians, health services for minorities, reproductive health, acces
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Genome and the Future of Health Care
Thomas H. Murray
1. The Impact of Mapping the Human Genome on the Physician Patient Relationship
Albert R. Jonsen
2. Educating Clinicians about Genetics
Vincent M. Riccardi
3. Medicine, Gene Therapy, and Society
William J. Polvino and W. French Anderson
4. The Genome Project and Health Services for Minority Populations
Herbert Nickens
5. Genetics and Reproductive Decision Making
Mary Anne Bobinski
6. Access to the Genome and Federal Entitlement Programs
Maxwell J. Mehlman
7. The Implications of the Human Genome Project for Access to Health Insurance
Deborah A. Stone
8. Genetics and Employment: More Disability Discrimination
Adrienne Asch
9. The Human Genome Project and the Distribution of Scarce Medical Resources
Norman Daniels
10. The Human Genome Project: Its Impact on Medical Practice
Robert F. Murray, Jr.
11. The Genome and Access to Health Care: Two Key Ethical Issues
Thomas H. Murray
12. The Genetic Factor in Health Care Reform: Framing the Policy Debate
Mark A. Rothstein
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