Frameworks of Choice: Predictive and Genetic Testing in Asia by Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

By Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner

The 1st examine of its variety in English, Frameworks of selection offers a accomplished review of predictive and genetic checking out in China, Japan, India, and Sri Lanka. the quantity sheds gentle at the assets on hand in every one of those nations; analyzes the social, political, and financial backgrounds of these deciding on or making a choice on to not suffer checking out; and discusses genetic checking out relating to genetic discrimination, biomedical exploitation, the distribution of health and wellbeing care assets, and nationalism.

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There is a strong prohibition on taking life and hence on termination of pregnancy. 2. There is widespread support among professionals and public alike for a limited liberalisation of the laws relating to termination, particularly where serious genetic disorders are identified. 3. There is a popular preoccupation with a variety of systems and signs that are commonly used to read present and future states of health and well-being. These three elements are often found blended together in people’s thinking about genetic testing.

Eugenics emerged as an extension of the science of heredity, and it claims to apply genetic principles for the im- 44 JYOTSNA AGNIHOTRI GUPTA provement of ‘mankind’. There are two kinds of eugenics: positive and negative. Positive eugenics aims to increase the reproduction of ‘fit’ individuals; negative eugenics aims to reduce the reproduction of ‘unfit’ individuals. Recent developments in basic genomics research may be eugenic in nature, in that ‘the aim is not only to “cure” disease – it is also to alter the genetic make-up of animals and humans, to get rid of “bad” genes from the population.

To intervene medically so as to mitigate the consequences of disease and improve the prognosis for patients). In most countries of the developed West, newborn screening for treatable Mendelian disorders has been provided under public health programmes since the 1960s. Screening was first applied for phenylketonuria (PKU). Screening of newborns has become a routine and often mandatory procedure, and is often subsidised by the government, although the number of conditions for which screening occurs may 52 JYOTSNA AGNIHOTRI GUPTA vary across countries.

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