Dr Lisa Ballard presented at The 19th International Conference on Communication, Medicine, and Ethics (COMET)

The COMET conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis is on the dissemination of ongoing research in language/discourse/communication studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics.

Title of talk: Three possible futures: Patient decision making regarding predictive genetic testing in the clinical genetics setting where there is little or deferred utility