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This paper focuses on selected results of a 1985–86 survey of ethical decision-making among 682 geneticists in 19 nations. The entire survey has appeared elsewhere (Wertz and Fletcher 1989, Wertz et al. 1990); in what follows I have selected those issues most germane to psychiatry. A few non-psychiatric examples, such as population screening for cystic fibrosis, have been included, because these represent generic issues (e.g., mandatory versus voluntary screening) that can also be applied to psychiatry.
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Wertz, D.C. (1991). Lessons from an International Survey of Medical Geneticists. In: Srám, R.J., Bulyzhenkov, V., Prilipko, L., Christen, Y. (eds) Ethical Issues of Molecular Genetics in Psychiatry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76429-5_6
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