ABSTRACT
Developments in genetic research have dominated recent public and professional debate about public health. One feature of this debate is the promise of the social and scientific transformation of public health. There have been calls for engagement with the ‘new’ genetics and an updating of concerns, sometimes to extend more traditional approaches, at other times presenting new ways of working and new problems. Developments in the field have been rapid and far reaching and have raised a wide range of social, political and ethical issues that we discuss here as issues of genetic governance.
