PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, Heredity, Aborted
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Week #10 lecture #15: tuesday, november 03, 2014. Dna: chemical directing production of proteins for biological function. Whether they"re a carrier of the disease and will pass it on. Likelihood can be altered by the way you grew up, nutrition and other factors. Respect autonomous and let them live in hope. Whether will pass on disease to offspring. Physicians: conflict b/w confidentiality (a) and warning (b, a) Extent of self-knowledge you need and to achieve. Change the way you decide to live. Might not be able to handle the disclosure. Could be some exception, discrimination against some benefits of illness permissible. Must permit disability --> may cause disability. It is necessarily to permit child to be born w/ disability, if there"s nth wrong w/ disability then there shouldn"t be anything wrong with causing a disability. Still learning about the cause and effects, and benefits of the tech. Put the group in a certain light.
