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Genetics and Insurance
FRANCOIS EWALD,T. McGleenan,Urban Wiesing
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Genetics and Insurance
FRANCOIS EWALD,T. McGleenan,Urban Wiesing
About This Book
Compiled by a well known and respected team of editors and contributors from interdisciplinary backgrounds, this book has its origins in the Euroscreen project, a research project funded by the European Commission to examine the legal and ethical issues arising from the use of genetic testing and screening since 1990. Contributors from members of a sub-group look at the likely impact of genetic testing on insurance.
It will be published at a point when the significant controversy surrounding this issue will have intensified throughout the European Union. Although taking a European perspective, it addresses US issues where there is a strong interest in comparative legislative strategies, taking a themed approach, this book looks comprehensively at the basis issues with an analytical rather than a descriptive approach.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Insurance, genetics and solidarity
- 2. Genetics, insurance and risk
- 3. Genetic discrimination
- 4. Genetic discrimination and insurance in practice
- 5. Social and private systems of health insurance
- 6. Genetic testing and the insurance industry
- 7. Insurance, genetics and the law
- 8. The implications of genetic regulation for insurance: the Austrian experience
- 9. Clinical aspects of genetics and insurance: the development and roles of Codes of Practice
- 10. Policy options for health and life insurance in the era of genetic testing
- Index