Erik Parens is a senior research scholar, the Hastings Center. Paul S. Appelbaum is a professor of psychiatry, medicine, and law, Columbia University, New York City, NY.
When the Human Genome Project began in 1990, bioethicists feared that giving people the results of genetic tests would do them a lot more harm than good.
Experts feared that individuals who received genetic information about their future health status would be overwhelmed by depression or anxiety. Or as genetic testing became more widely available, it …
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