ABSTRACT
Today, the biological sciences have attained the scale and capacity of ‘Big Biology’, not only in terms of the amount of research done in the field but also in the way in which biology promises to transform health care delivery. Weinberg, cited above, must have been a visionary man. He foresaw what was about to happen in the last part of the twentieth century. Genetic technologies for example, being one of the major successes of Big Biology, are believed to bring about a major change in the provision, delivery and organisation of health care practices. What exactly these changes will look like, however, we do not know. The future development of genetic technologies, especially genetic testing is marked by acute uncertainty.1
