Genetics and Life Insurance: Medical Underwriting and Social Policy (Basic Bioethics)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Insurance companies routinely use an individual's medical history and family medical history in determining eligibility for life insurance; this is part of the process of medical underwriting. Insurers have also long used genetic information, often derived from family history, in underwriting. But rapid advances in gene identification and genetic testing are changing the way we look at genetic information. Should the results of genetic testing (which might identify a predisposition toward disease not related to medical history) be available to life insurance medical underwriters? Few i...
ISBN(s)
0262512599, 9780262512596
