Recent Wellcome Witnesses publication: 'Medical Genetics: Development of Ethical Dimensions in Clinical Practice and Research'
A recent volume of Wellcome Witnesses to
Contemporary Medicine is freely available to download at the History of
Modern Biomedicine Research Group website:
Medical Genetics: Development of Ethical Dimensions in Clinical Practice and Research
'… most of us going in as
clinicians and coming out as clinical geneticists had absolutely zero
grounding in philosophy, psychology, or any other kind of ‘ology’
really.'
Professor Peter Harper
A Witness Seminar on the emergence
of complex ethical issues in clinical genetics practice, the evolution
of these issues over several decades of advances in medical genetics
research and social change, and the professionalization
of this field. Chaired by Professor Anneke Lucassen (Southampton) with
an introduction by Professor Richard Ashcroft (QMUL).
Jones E M and Tansey E M. (eds) (2016)
Wellcome Witnesses to Contemporary Medicine, vol. 57. London: Queen Mary University of London.
ISBN 978 1 91019 5130
‘… the whole healthcare system
is geared up to the individual, largely, to the person with a symptom
who comes and needs to be assessed and investigated and treated and so
on. … the true patient in the genetics clinic
is the family, not only the individual.’
Professor Peter Turnpenny
This volume can be ordered from www.amazon.co.uk; www.amazon.com;
and all good booksellers for £6/$10 plus postage, using the ISBN. For
further details of this and other volumes in the series visit: http://www.histmodbiomed.org/
All volumes are freely available to download.