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Self-knowledge and risk in stratified medicine
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This article considers why and how self-knowledge is important to communication about risk and behaviour change by arguing for four claims. First, it is doubtful that genetic knowledge should properly be called ‘self-knowledge’ when its ordinary effects on self-motivation and behaviour change seem so slight. Second, temptations towards a reductionist, fatalist, construal of persons’ futures through a ‘molecular optic’ should be resisted. Third, any plausible effort to change people’s behaviou...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Routledge Publisher's website
- Journal:
- New Bioethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 23
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 55-63
- Publication date:
- 2017-05-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-03
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2050-2885
- ISSN:
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2050-2877
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pubs:686358
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uuid:df03f581-db0e-49cd-9d50-a9d87d35f02f
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- pubs:686358
- Deposit date:
- 2017-03-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Hordern, J
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2017 The Author. Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction
in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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