The Janus face of prenatal diagnostics a European study bridging ethics, psychoanalysis, and medicine
"Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology creates new opportunities and possibilities, but also new dangers, risks, and ethical concerns...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Karnac
c2008.
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009797978806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PART I: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Introduction and overview; CHAPTER TWO: Ethics of care in prenatal diagnosis: implications of variations in law, policy, and practice in EDIG countries; CHAPTER THREE: State of the art in prenatal diagnosis; PART II: FINDINGS OF EDIG; CHAPTER FOUR: Empirical data evaluation on EDIG (Ethical Dilemmas due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics); CHAPTER FIVE: Some comments of countries that collected empirical and clinical data
- CHAPTER SIX: Interviewing women and couples after prenatal and genetic diagnosticsCHAPTER SEVEN: Crisis intervention after prenatal diagnostics: an example; CHAPTER EIGHT: ""I'd also like to be in good hope myself for once."" The highly problematic decision-making process within the framework of PND and its dependency on a sufficiently developed, autonomous female identity; PART III: ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT EDIG; CHAPTER NINE: Experience and ethics: ethical and methodological reflections on the integration of the EDIG study in the ethical landscape
- CHAPTER TEN: Moral dilemmas and decision-making in prenatal genetic testingCHAPTER ELEVEN: The moral status of the foetus; CHAPTER TWELVE: Prenatal genetic counselling: conceptual and ethical issues; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The interchange between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the understanding of ethical decisions; PART IV: CLINICAL, MEDICAL, AND SOCIETAL IMPLICATIONS; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A model of integrated genetic counselling (IGC): EDIG as a transformation promoter in PND
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Prenatal and genetic diagnostics and trisomia: a current debate of ethical and psychosocial implications with reference to GreeceCHAPTER SIXTEEN: PND in a Christian and Muslim culture. The EDIG project in Thrace, Greece; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Introducing new tests in genetic diagnostics: details of some ongoing controversial discussions in Swedish media; BIBLIOGRAPHY
