Genetics and life insurance
Subtitle: medical underwriting and social policy
By: edited by Mark A. Rothstein
Contributors: Rothstein, Mark A
Series: Basic bioethics
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Insurance, Life -- Medical examinations; Genetics; Bioethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Public attitudes / Mark A. Rothstein and Carlton A. Hornung; title: The insurer perspective / Roberta B. Meyer; title: The economics of risk selection / Arnold A. Dicke; title: Medical underwriting / Robert K. Gleeson; title: Genetic risks and mortality rates / J. Alexander Lowden; title: The functions of insurance and the fairness of genetic underwriting / Norman Daniels; title: Perspectives of consumers and genetics professionals / Wendy R. Uhlmann and Sharon F. Terry; title: A comparative international overview / Bartha Maria Knoppers, Béatrice Godard, and Yann Joly; title: Antitrust implications of insurers' collaborative standard setting / Robert H. Jerry II; title: A consumer agenda / J. Robert Hunter; title: Policy recommendations / Mark A. Rothstein