Alerting relatives about heritable risks: the limits of confidentiality Seminar
- Time:
- 16:00 - 17:30
- Date:
- 29 October 2018
- Venue:
- Room LC51, Level C South Academic Block, Southampton General Hospital
For more information regarding this seminar, please email CELS at cels@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Part of the Clinical Ethics and Law Seminar Series 2018/19. All welcome.
Abstract
Advances in genetic and genomic technology mean that a test in one person may sometimes reveal risk of future disease in relatives who will remain ignorant unless alerted. When should such communication take place? Whose job is it? Anneke Lucassen will discuss the complex ethical and legal challenges that are increasingly relevant across a range of clinical specialities as genomic medicine moves into mainstream medicine.
Speaker information
Anneke Lucassen,Professor of Clinical Genetics