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Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services: Ethical Aspects

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• Quality in genetic services presupposes clear, consistent and well-argued for ethical premises.

• Without such premises, priorities, public confidence and quality of genetic services are likely to be negatively affected.

• Choice of alternative formulations or provisions in quality assurance guidelines are based on, and intended to protect, ethical values.

• Sometimes there are tensions in our culture between these values, which give rise to ethical conflicts or problems.

• Ethical condiderations enter into several different levels of discourse, five of which are discussed in the present chapter.

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  1. Department of Medical Ethics, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Göran Hermerén

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  1. Dept. Clinical Genetics, University of Lund, Lund, 221 85, Sweden

    Ulf Kristoffersson

  2. Zentrum Kinderheilkunde, Inst. Humangenetik, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH), Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, Hannover, 30625, Germany

    Jörg Schmidtke

  3. Center f. Human Genetics, Lab. For. Gen. & Mol. Arch., University of Leuven, Kapucijenvoer 33, Leuven, 3000, Belgium

    J. J. Cassiman

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Hermerén, G. (2010). Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services: Ethical Aspects. In: Kristoffersson, U., Schmidtke, J., Cassiman, J. (eds) Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3919-4_23

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