ABSTRACT
Practitioners in genetic healthcare-whatever their basic training and backgroundregard themselves as professionals. Two of the basic requirements for a profession are self-regulation and the adherence by practitioners to a code of ethics. Although working in an ethical way will often be a matter of routine and common sense, there are situations in which the correct course of action is unclear, and a code of practice that is agreed by the profession is needed as guidance. In this chapter, different ethical codes and potentially difficult situations will be discussed.
