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Genetic information use in hiring decisions: Psycho-legal possibilities arising from the Human Genome Project.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Genetic information use in hiring decisions: Psycho-legal possibilities arising from the Human Genome Project./
Author:	Adya, Meera.
Description:	111 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: B, page: 4334.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08B.
Subject:	Psychology, Industrial. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3142070
ISBN:	9780496890842

Genetic information use in hiring decisions: Psycho-legal possibilities arising from the Human Genome Project.
Adya, Meera.

Genetic information use in hiring decisions: Psycho-legal possibilities arising from the Human Genome Project. - 111 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: B, page: 4334.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2004.

The wealth of general knowledge resulting from the Human Genome Project will provide the opportunity for individualized health information to be obtained through simple medical tests. The conclusiveness that might be associated with this new type of health information could have serious deleterious consequences if misused. Employers have used a range of techniques varying in intrusiveness to evaluate potential employees (e.g., personality tests, drug tests). Survey data, anecdotal evidence, and case law (e.g., Norman-Bloodsaw v. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 1998) suggest that genetic discrimination has occurred under some circumstances. The legal debate over whether genetic discrimination is adequately remedied by existing legislation (Nance, Miller, & Rothstein, 2002) raises a fundamental question that is being examined for the first time by this dissertation: would employers use genetic test information to make differential hiring recommendations?

ISBN: 9780496890842Subjects--Topical Terms:

520063
Psychology, Industrial.

Genetic information use in hiring decisions: Psycho-legal possibilities arising from the Human Genome Project.
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520 $a Three studies examined whether health information affects hiring recommendations by manipulating genetic test and family history information for a mental and physical disorder. Generalizability of the findings was tested by using different samples (students v. community) and by adding variables (job-relatedness of disorder, work experience, severity of diagnosis).
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