Ethical and social issues have become a large part of th...

Question

Ethical and social issues have become a large part of the public discussion of genetics and genetic testing. Choose two of the propositions presented here and prepare a list of arguments for and against them.

The results of genetic testing for susceptibility to cancer, heart disease, and diabetes should be available to insurance companies and current or prospective employers to provide more information for decision making.

Accepted Answer

Hello, everyone and welcome to today's video, a process that helps individuals understand the risks and benefits of genetic testing is referred to as which of these following terms. And if you notice these terms are all go going to start with the war genetic. So we're going to be focusing on the second war of each term. So let's begin by answer choice. Genetic testing here in genetic testing, we're actually running exams on the individual's genetics such as sequencing and many other things here, we're not really providing the individual with the understanding of the recent benefits were actually running the test. So we're canceling this out. Then we have genetic discrimination and this refers to discrimination based on an individual genes. This is not going to help the individual understand that the recent benefits of genetic testing. So we're also canceling this out and then we have genetic counseling. But remember that when we're counseling, someone were in fact advising them. And one thing that we could advise them about is the risks and benefits of genetic testing. The genetic counseling is actually going to be the correct term that we use to describe this process. And we're going to highlight it as a final answer to our question. I really hope this video helped you and I hope to see you on the next one.

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