Primary Health Care Ethics in the Wake of the Human Genome Initiative
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https://doi.org/10.15273/dmj.Vol25No1.4438Abstract
The Human Genome Initiative, or Human Genome Project, is an international collaborative effort to sequence the human genome. This will enable us to better understand genetic information and to apply this knowledge in the prevention or treatment of disease. Presently, and following the completion of the project, physicians in various fields of medicine will be required to possess the knowledge, skills and ethical demeanour to deal with genetic counselling, screening and testing of patients. It is obligatory that the medical community prepare for the increased ethical attentiveness that will be required of them in the face of this new genetic knowledge.
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1997-04-12
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Apostolides, C. (1997). Primary Health Care Ethics in the Wake of the Human Genome Initiative. DALHOUSIE MEDICAL JOURNAL, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.15273/dmj.Vol25No1.4438
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