Genetic screening and the right not to know.

Issues in Law & Medicine | December 22, 1997| | Copyright

[W]hen it comes to being tested for a genetic predisposition to diseases

that have no real cures and whose date of onset cannot be predicted,

there are basically two types of people. There are "want-to-knowers" and

there are "avoiders."(1)

Nearly five years ago, my father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. This terrible illness has proceeded to destroy my father, leaving only a hollow shell where a man once was. His case is possibly one of early onset Alzheimer's, a condition recently found to be genetically linked.(2) This ...

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