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(Basic Bioethics.) Edited by Mark A. Rothstein. 293 pp. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 2004. $34. ISBN 0-262-18236-X.

The fear of genetic discrimination in life insurance pervades much of the discussion about the issue. Although editor Mark Rothstein does not ignore this fear, he has drawn together a group of authors who present intelligent and well-reasoned views of the key players in the current debate. The perspective is mainly from the United States, but the book is also relevant to other jurisdictions, since the basic concepts behind insurance, economics, and discrimination are common to many countries.

The consumer often assumes that the use of genetic information by insurers can be detrimental only to those people at risk for . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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