Sharing a genetic condition with family members: how can practitioners help?
Release Date: 07/20/2023
Sharing a genetic condition with family members: how can practitioners help?
The Ethics Round
In Episode 1 of The Ethics Round, we're exploring the ethical challenges faced by health practitioners in helping patients to share information with family members about a genetic condition that may also affect them. Our guests are and clinical genetics physician from the Biomedical Research Centre, Health, Society and Data Theme at the University of Southampton. Both take part in research across the universities of Oxford and Southampton that explores the clinical ethical, legal and societal issues involved in developments in genomics and big data in medicine. ...
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Series trailer: The Ethics Round
The Ethics Round
The ethical challenges facing health researchers, practitioners and patients today are many. So how can we better navigate them? If this sounds interesting to you, we have a great new podcast for you. The Ethics Round is a podcast from the Episode 1 drops on July 20th. We’ll be in conversation with Dr Lisa Ballard and Professor Anneke Lucassen about how we can best support patients in sharing genetic test results with relatives who may also be at risk of the same condition. So follow us or subscribe now to make sure you can join us for Episode 1 of The Ethics Round, a ...
info_outlineIn Episode 1 of The Ethics Round, we're exploring the ethical challenges faced by health practitioners in helping patients to share information with family members about a genetic condition that may also affect them.
Our guests are Dr Lisa Ballard, a health pyschologist and clinical genetics physician Professor Anneke Lucassen, from the Biomedical Research Centre, Health, Society and Data Theme at the University of Southampton. Both take part in research across the universities of Oxford and Southampton that explores the clinical ethical, legal and societal issues involved in developments in genomics and big data in medicine.
- Interventions to support patients with sharing genetic test results with at-risk relatives: a synthesis without meta-analysis (SWiM) is research by Lisa Ballard, Rebecca Band and Anneke Lucassen and is published in the European Journal of Human Genetics
- Read a transcript of the podcast