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In thinking about philosophical and ethical approaches to genetic screening, one question that arises is whether and to what extent consensus is possible in European bioethics. That leads to another question — what is meant by the term ‘consensus’. In this introduction we first look at consensus in bioethics itself, and then consensus in practical application in practice. This discussion has implications for the way forward in bioethics.
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Chadwick, R., Wiesing, U. (1999). Moral and philosophical issues. In: Chadwick, R., Shickle, D., Ten Have, H., Wiesing, U. (eds) The Ethics of Genetic Screening. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9323-6_16
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