Ethics, Privacy, and the Future of Genetic Information in Healthcare Information Assurance and Security

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Author(s): John A. Springer (Purdue University, USA), Jonathan Beever (Purdue University, USA), Nicolae Morar (Purdue University, USA), Jon E. Sprague (Ohio Northern University, USA)and Michael D. Kane (Purdue University, USA)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 20
Source title: Information Assurance and Security Ethics in Complex Systems: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Melissa Jane Dark (Purdue University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61692-245-0.ch009

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Information Security & Privacy / IT Security and Ethics / Security & Forensics

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Abstract

The risks associated with the misuse and abuse of genetic information are high, as the exploitation of an individual’s genetic information represents the ultimate example of identity theft. Hence, as the frontline of defense, information assurance and security (IAS) practitioners must be intimately familiar with the multidimensional aspects surrounding the use of genetic information in healthcare. To achieve that aim, this chapter addresses the ethical, privacy, economic, and legal aspects of the future uses of genetic information in healthcare and discusses the impact of these uses on IAS. The reader gains an effective ethical framework in which to understand and evaluate the competing demands placed upon the IAS practitioners by the transformative utility of genomics.

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