Genetic Counseling: Ethical Challenges and Consequences
Cover -- Halt Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the AldineTransaction Edition -- Listof Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- I. Evolution of Genetic Counseling -- 1 Genetic Counseling: Values That Have Mattered -- 2 The Training of Genetic Counselors: Origins of a Psychosocial Model -- 3 The Workplace Ideology of Genetic Counselors -- 4 When Theory Meets Practice: Challenges to the Field of Genetic Counseling -- II. Social and Policy Issues in Genetic Counseling -- 5 Risk and the Ethics of Genetic Choice -- 6 Discrimination Issues and Genetic Screening -- 7 Role of Public Policy in Genetic Screening and Counseling -- 8 Parables -- III. Future Directions and Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling -- 9 The Impact of the Human Genome Project for Genetic Counseling Services -- 10 The Evolution of Nondirectiveness in Genetic Counseling and Implications of the Human Genome Project -- 11 Objectivity, Value Neutrality, and Nondirectiveness in Genetic Counseling -- 12 Ethical Obligations of Genetic Counselors -- 13 Neutrality Is No tMorality: The Ethics of Genetic Counseling -- IV. Appendix -- Appendix A Nationa lSociety of Genetic Counselors Code of Ethics -- References -- Index