Direct-to-consumer health genetic testing services: What commercial strategies for which socio-ethical issues?

Online availability of direct-to-consumer health genetic testing services for various diseases and behavioural traits appears to have created a business dynamic since its beginning around the turn of the millennium. What are the marketing strategies implemented by the companies commercialising these...

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Publicado en:Health Sociology Review Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 75 - 88
Autores principales: Ducournau, Pascal, Gourraud, Pierre-Antoine, Rial-Sebbag, Emmanuelle, Cambon-Thomsen, Anne, Bulle, Alexandre
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2013
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          Ducournau, Pascal
          Gourraud, Pierre-Antoine
          Rial-Sebbag, Emmanuelle
          Cambon-Thomsen, Anne
          Bulle, Alexandre
        affil: Human Sciences Department, Albi University, Albi, France
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          Genetic Screening Ethical Issues
          Direct Access
          Marketing Methods
          Online Services
          Human
          Funding Source
          World Wide Web Evaluation
          Multimethod Studies
          Holistic Care
          Individualized Medicine
          Attitude to Life
          Attitude to Risk
          Disease Susceptibility
          DNA Analysis
          Decision Making, Patient
          Social Identity
      ab: Online availability of direct-to-consumer health genetic testing services for various diseases and behavioural traits appears to have created a business dynamic since its beginning around the turn of the millennium. What are the marketing strategies implemented by the companies commercialising these tests and the social expectations they feed on? From a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the websites offering such tests for health, it appears that these companies have based their expansion on a triple-branch market: 'healthism', contemporary claims revolving around the individuation of 'biopolitics', and biosocial bonding. Each of these three marketing strategies raises a number of socio-ethical issues that require careful consideration in the face of an unprecedented surge of the genetic testing market.
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