Ethical Concerns of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests

Farahani Fereshteh Shahrabi ()
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Farahani Fereshteh Shahrabi: School of Information Technologies, Department of Health Technologies, Tallinn University of Technology, Ehitajate tee 5, Tallinn 19086, Estonia

TalTech Journal of European Studies, 2022, vol. 12, issue 1, 145-158

Abstract: The rapid development of technology is having an enormous effect on our lives. Emerging technological solutions offer new possibilities in various fields and on different levels, either for ordinary human beings or organisations and governments. However, the ethical implications of such technologies on our lives, our societies, are often not fully understood and require careful analysis. This article focuses on one type of such technologies, genetic tests available to the public, analysing the potential ethical concerns in these tests being directly provided to the consumers.

Keywords: ethics; ethics in medicine; ethics of technology; genetic tests; public health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.2478/bjes-2022-0007

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