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During the past year, the bioethical issues generated by genetic screening (and its related activity, genetic counseling) have received renewed attention. Some of the current discussion returns to issues that were extensively debated the to fifteen years ago,1 but others are receiving close scrutiny for the first time. The new attention results from several recent or prospective developments in screening capabilities, which in turn have stimulated studies by two governmental bodies. Those reports, by the President’s Commission on ethical problems in medicine and research and by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA),2 are complementary and provide the basis for this review article.
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During the past year, the bioethical issues generated by genetic screening (and its related activity, genetic counseling) have received renewed attention. Some of the current discussion returns to issues that were extensively debated the to fifteen years ago,1 but others are receiving close scrutiny for the first time. The new attention results from several recent or prospective developments in screening capabilities, which in turn have stimulated studies by two governmental bodies. Those reports, by the President’s Commission on ethical problems in medicine and research and by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA),2 are complementary and provide the basis for this review article.
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