caa a22 4500 467896887 CHVBK 20180406152806.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11019-005-5292-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11019-005-5292-7 Stempsey William Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, One College Street, 01610-2395, Worcester, MA, USA aut The Geneticization of Diagnostics [Elektronische Daten] [William Stempsey] "Geneticization” is a term used to describe the ways in which the science of genetics is influencing society at large and medicine in particular; it has important implications for the process of diagnostics. Because genetic diagnostics produces knowledge about genetic disease and predisposition to disease, it is essentially influenced by these innovations in the disease concept. In this paper, I argue that genetic diagnostics presents new ethical challenges not because the diagnostic process or method in genetic diagnostics is ethically different in kind from traditional medical diagnostics, but because it relies on a neo-ontological concept of disease in a context of genetic reductionism. Geneticization has not produced a radically new concept of disease, however, but has introduced innovations into the classical ontological concept of disease. When this new concept of disease is held in tandem with genetic reductionism, we are led to the absurd conclusion that disease is the very essence of the human being. I argue that neither the neo-ontological concept of disease nor genetic reductionism is necessary for a proper understanding of genetic diagnostics. Springer, 2006 concept of disease nationallicence diagnosis nationallicence diagnostics nationallicence geneticization nationallicence genetic reductionism nationallicence genetics nationallicence Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2006-07-01), 193-200 1386-7423 9:2<193 2006 9 11019 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-005-5292-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-005-5292-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Stempsey William Department of Philosophy, College of the Holy Cross, One College Street, 01610-2395, Worcester, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/2(2006-07-01), 193-200 1386-7423 9:2<193 2006 9 11019 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer