Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice

practice, Michael Parker provides a compelling insight into the complex moral world of the contemporary genetics professional and the challenges they face in the care of patients and their families. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the ethical issues arising in everyday genetics practice. Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice is also a sustained engagement with the relationships between bioethics and social science. In proposing and exemplifying a new approach to bioethics, it makes a significant contribution to debates on methods and interdisciplinarity and will therefore also appeal to all those concerned with theoretical and methodological approaches to bioethics and social science.

• Empirically grounded account will appeal to those who are interested in ethical issues arising in genetics for health professionals, policy-makers and family members • Proposes and exemplifies a new approach to bioethics that will appeal to those interested in theoretical and methodological approaches to ethics

• Investigation of the relationships between bioethics and social science which makes a significant contribution to debate on methods and interdisciplinarity and to the role of ethics in relation to these two disciplines