The traditional moral viewpoint has been that professional secrecy is in both the patient's and the doctor's interests. But today, ought we not to be concerned to make genetic information available to the relatives (or the potential spouse) of the patient? (Bankowski 3).
Here again we must face the issue of whether simply because we can perform some medical miracle we should do so.
The potential exists for genetic testing for a number of maladies that might develop later in life. The operative word here is "might," for genetic testing can only identify a predisposition to certain diseases and syndromes, not the certainty that they will develop. Many of the possibilities are bound with the Human Genome Project, which began in 1990 in order to spell out the entire genetic code of Homo sapiens. In 1991, biologist Craig Venter began to use a new process of his own that dramatically accelerated results. Because of this, newly discovered human gene sequences are being posted
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