Genetic susceptibility testing: ethical and social quandaries.
Genetic susceptibility testing: ethical and social quandaries.
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遗传易感性测试：伦理和社会困境。
DOI：
10.1093/hsw/23.3.214
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发表时间：
1998
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Freedman,TG
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作者：
Freedman,TG
乳腺癌在美国仍然是一个严重的公共卫生问题，影响个人，家庭和社会。人类基因组图谱绘制的同时快速进展、技术进步以及随后的基因检测商业化，使妇女有可能在相应的社会和心理支持到位之前寻求乳腺癌和卵巢癌易感性检测。由于卫生保健更加强调疾病预防，同时对卫生保健的经济支持减少，基因检测带来了社会和伦理挑战以及困境。本文所讨论的研究包括密集的实地观察和深入的面对面访谈有关的遗传易感性测试。社会工作者可能处于一个独特的位置，与其他卫生专业人员在临床和政策竞技场方面的这些测试。
Breast cancer in the United States continues to be a serious public health problem that affects individuals, families, and society. The simultaneous rapid progress in mapping the human genome, the advances in technology, and the subsequent commercialization of genetic testing have made it possible for women to seek breast and ovarian cancer susceptibility testing before comparable social and psychological supports are put in place. As health care places more emphasis on illness prevention and simultaneously commits less economic support for health care, genetic testing presents social and ethical challenges as well as dilemmas. The study discussed in this article consisted of intensive field observation and in-depth, face-to-face interviews concerning genetic susceptibility testing. The social worker may be in a unique position to collaborate with other health professionals in the clinical and the policy arena in regard to these tests.