Genetic screening and the right not to know.

From: Issues in Law & Medicine | Date: December 22, 1997| Author: Weaver, Kirke D. | Copyright information

[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)

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