Beschreibung:
This book looks comprehensively at the basis issues with an analytical rather than a descriptive approach.
1. Insurance, Genetics and Solidarity. 2. Genetics, Insurance and Risk. 3. Genetic Discrimination. 4. Genetic Discrimination and Insurance in Practice. 5. Social and Private Systems of Health Insurance. 6. Genetic Testing and the Insurance Industry. 7. Insurance, Genetics and the Law. 8. The Implications of Genetic Regulation for Insurance: The Austrian Experience. 9. Clinical Aspects of Genetics and Insurance: The Developement and Roles of Codes of Practice. 10. Policy Options for Health and Life Insurance: in the Era of Genetic Testing.