The right not to know: the case of psychiatric disorders

This paper will consider the right not to know in the context of psychiatric disorders. It will outline the arguments for and against acquiring knowledge about the results of genetic testing for conditions such as breast cancer and Huntington's disease, and examine whether similar consideration...

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Autores principales: Bortolotti, Lisa, Widdows, Heather
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2011
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Ethics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3197820/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21659442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2010.041111
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description This paper will consider the right not to know in the context of psychiatric disorders. It will outline the arguments for and against acquiring knowledge about the results of genetic testing for conditions such as breast cancer and Huntington's disease, and examine whether similar considerations apply to disclosing to clients the results of genetic testing for psychiatric disorders such as depression and Alzheimer's disease. The right not to know will also be examined in the context of the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders that are associated with stigma or for which there is no effective treatment.
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spelling pubmed-31978202011-10-24 The right not to know: the case of psychiatric disorders Bortolotti, Lisa Widdows, Heather J Med Ethics Ethics This paper will consider the right not to know in the context of psychiatric disorders. It will outline the arguments for and against acquiring knowledge about the results of genetic testing for conditions such as breast cancer and Huntington's disease, and examine whether similar considerations apply to disclosing to clients the results of genetic testing for psychiatric disorders such as depression and Alzheimer's disease. The right not to know will also be examined in the context of the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders that are associated with stigma or for which there is no effective treatment. BMJ Group 2011-06-09 2011-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3197820/ /pubmed/21659442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2010.041111 Text en © 2011, Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode.
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