When information can save lives: the duty to warn relatives about sudden cardiac death and environmental risks.
Details
Serval ID
serval:BIB_9CA5D8BF31CB
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
When information can save lives: the duty to warn relatives about sudden cardiac death and environmental risks.
Journal
Hastings Center Report
ISSN
0093-0334
0093-0334
0093-0334
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2010
Volume
40
Number
3
Pages
39-45
Language
english
Abstract
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.
Keywords
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
Pubmed
Web of science
Create date
20/07/2010 15:08
Last modification date
20/08/2019 15:03
Usage data
