When information can save lives: the duty to warn relatives about sudden cardiac death and environmental risks.
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2010
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| Resumo |
In certain cases of sudden death, forensic experts may discover during an investigation or autopsy that family members of the deceased are also at risk of harm-from genetic disease, for instance. But do they have a duty to warn them? Looking at similar duties of physicians and researchers to warn third parties of risk suggests they do. |
| Identificador |
https://serval.unil.ch/?id=serval:BIB_9CA5D8BF31CB isbn:0093-0334[print], 0093-0334[linking] pmid:20545107 isiid:000278304100021 doi: |
| Idioma(s) |
en |
| Fonte |
Hastings Center Report, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 39-45 |
| Palavras-Chave | #Death, Sudden, Cardiac/etiology; Duty to Warn/ethics; Duty to Warn/legislation & jurisprudence; Environmental Exposure/adverse effects; Environmental Exposure/prevention & control; Family; Forensic Pathology/ethics; Forensic Pathology/legislation & jurisprudence; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Heart Arrest/genetics; Humans; Risk Factors |
| Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/review article |
