Genetics and Life Insurance
Subtitle: Medical Underwriting and Social Policy (Basic Bioethics)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: May 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780262182362
Subjects: Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Medical ethics; Insurance - Health; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Business / Economics / Finance; Bioethics; Genetics; Insurance, Life; Medical examinations; Philosophy
First sentence: When the Human Genome Project officially began in 1990, the first social concern to generate widespread interest was the possibility that health insurance companies would use predictive genetic information to charge individuals higher rates or to exclude them from coverage (Murray 1992; NIH-DOE Working Group 1993).