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For many people in the US, privacy is the single most important ethical issue in genetics. Possible loss of insurance is their greatest fear, though this may reflect a general dislike of insurance companies rather than what is actually happening in genetics. In this chapter, we discuss access to genetic information (Tables 68 and 69), telling a school system a genetic diagnosis (Table 70), DNA fingerprinting (Table 71>), genetic testing in the workplace (Tables 72–74), public safety (Table 75), and “genetic discrimination” (Tables 76–78). We have already described the meanings of “privacy” and “confidentiality” at the beginning of Chapter 6.
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Wertz, D.C., Fletcher, J.C. (2004). Privacy, Discrimination, and Public Health. In: Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0981-2_7
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