Medical profiling and online medicine: The ethics of 'personalised' health care in a consumer age
Consultation
This consultation closed on 31st July 2009.
The Council would like to thank everyone who contributed to the consultation. The responses are being considered by the Working Party.
Where permission has been granted, the responses will be available to download from this website after the Working Party has published its Report.
Although the consultation has now closed, you can still download the consultation paper.
Consultation paper
Full consultation paper - PDF
Full consultation paper – Word document
The consultation paper provides background information and poses a number of questions, including:
- Is there a need for further regulation of direct-to-consumer DNA profiling or MRI and CT scans?
- Are the results of commercially available body imaging or genetic profiling scientifically sound?
- How useful are online health records and information?
- Are there downsides to telemedicine applications, for example, video-consultations?
If you have missed the consultation deadline but would like to share your views about the ethical issues raised in this consultation, please contact:
Tom Finnegan
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
28 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3JS
UK
Fax: +44 (0)20 7637 1712
Telephone +44 (0)20 7681 9619
Email: consultation@nuffieldbioethics.org
Last Updated Mon, 3 August 2009