Unintended messages: the ethics of teaching genetic dilemmas

Hastings Cent Rep. 2002 Mar-Apr;32(2):37-9.

Abstract

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.

MeSH terms

  • Achondroplasia / genetics*
  • Education, Medical / ethics*
  • Genetic Carrier Screening
  • Genetic Counseling / ethics*
  • Humans
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
  • Stereotyping