However, one might consider the effect of social policies that would provide health and nursing care to all persons with Alzheimer disease. The principle of justice would require that decisions about disclosure apply equally to all persons in the same situation. Strict monetary utilitarianism would weigh the individual and social costs of disclosure and non-disclosure and might very well lead to a discussion of euthanasia. Some scientists hope that in the future more accurate tests will remove most of these ethical dilemmas. Few medical tests of any kind have this power of prediction.
Improved technology is unlikely to resolve our dilemma.
Therefore, we must rely upon ethical reasoning. We will report your answers in the next issue. Oxford University Press, 1994. National Society of Genetic Counselors, Code of Ethics. Journal of Genetic Counseling, Vol.