Genetic screening and occupational and environmental exposures
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Genetic screening and occupational and environmental exposures.
but policies based on freedom of choice divorced from an awareness of the broader social context have the potential to favour the wealthy, the highly educated, and the genetically healthy. Not everyone, for example, has the choice about where they are going to work—lack of skills, lack of mobility, living in an area of high unemployment, and so on may make it impossible for those who are reject...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.019190