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<p>The rapid development of technology is having an enormous effect on our lives. Emerging technological solutions offer new possibilities in various fields and on different levels, either for ordinary human beings or organisations and governments. However, the ethical implications of such technologies on our lives, our societies, are often not fully understood and require careful analysis. This article focuses on one type of such technologies, genetic tests available to the public, analysing the potential ethical concerns in these tests being directly provided to the consumers.</p>
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The rapid development of technology is having an enormous effect on our lives. Emerging technological solutions offer new possibilities in various fields and on different levels, either for ordinary human beings or organisations and governments. However, the ethical implications of such technologies on our lives, our societies, are often not fully understood and require careful analysis. This article focuses on one type of such technologies, genetic tests available to the public, analysing the potential ethical concerns in these tests being directly provided to the consumers.

Ethical Concerns of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests

School of Information Technologies, Department of Health Technologies

TalTech Journal of European Studies

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The rapid development of technology is having an enormous effect on our lives. Emerging technological solutions offer new possibilities in various fields and...

Ethical Concerns of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests

Published Online: Jun 23, 2022

Page range: 145 - 158

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2022-0007

Keywords
ethics, ethics in medicine, ethics of technology, genetic tests, public health

© 2022 Fereshteh Shahrabi Farahani, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Ethical Concerns of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests

Published Online: Jun 23, 2022

Page range: 145 - 158

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjes-2022-0007

Keywordsethics, ethics in medicine, ethics of technology, genetic tests, public health

© 2022 Fereshteh Shahrabi Farahani, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
ethics, ethics in medicine, ethics of technology, genetic tests, public health