Genetics in Human Reproduction

by Hildt, Elisabeth; Graumann, Sigrid

• ISBN13: 9781840148251
• ISBN10: 184014825X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	viii
Preface	xi
Acknowledgements	xiii
List of Abbreviations	xv
Part One: Medical and scientific view
Clinical experience with PID and ICSI	3	(14)
Ingeborg Liebaers
K. Sermon
C. Staessen
H. Joris
W. Lissens
E. Van Assche
P. Nagy
M. Bonduelle
M. Vandervorst
P. Devroey
A. Van Steirteghem
The various micromanipulative procedures: State of the art, chances, and risks	17	(6)
Dieter Meschede
Jurgen Horst
The relation between ICSI and genetic diagnosis from an ethical point of view	23	(10)
Barbara Maier
Modification of IVF application and access to IVF services by PID?	33	(4)
Brian A. Lieberman
Examples for possible PID indications - scientific background and reflections on effects	37	(10)
Ulrike A. Mau
Should there be a uniform list of genetic diseases allowing access to PID?	47	(8)
Hansjakob Muller
Nuclear transplantation - medical and ethical aspects	55	(20)
Gerd Richter
Matthew D. Bacchetta
Part Two: Personal interests and moral implications
Ethics of preimplantation genetic diagnosis	75	(22)
Guido de Wert
Preimplantation diagnosis. A reflection in light of a personalist ethics	97	(10)
Paul Schotsmans
Ethical aspects of germline gene therapy	107	(12)
Alexandre Mauron
`Quality control' in reproduction -- what can it mean, what should it mean?	119	(8)
Dieter Birnbacher
Does gene therapy have ethically problematic effects on identity?	127	(8)
Ingmar Persson
Part Three: Moral rights and duties
Does PID solve the moral problems of prenatal diagnosis? A rights analysis	135	(6)
Deryck Beyleveld
Ethics of Research on Human Embryos	141	(6)
Reiner Wimmer
Categorical arguments -- Pro life versus pro choice?	147	(10)
Maureen Junker-Kenny
Selection through prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis	157	(12)
Hille Haker
Part Four: Social concepts and moral implications
Eugenics comes back with medically assisted procreation	169	(6)
Bernard Sele
Jacques Testart
Germline gene `therapy': Public opinions with regard to eugenics	175	(10)
Sigrid Graumann
Predictive genetic medicine -- a new concept of disease	185	(12)
Lene Koch
Animal Models: an anthropologist considers Dolly	197	(12)
Sarah Franklin
Issues surrounding preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy	209	(4)
Alexandre Quintanilha
Beside the point -- reflections on passivity	213	(10)
Paul J.M. van Tongeren
Part Five: Choices and decision making
What claims can be based on the desire for a healthy child? Towards an ethics of `informed desires'	223	(12)
Walter Lesch
The European Alliance of Genetic Support Groups	235	(8)
Ysbrand Poortman
Some reflections on the use of the term `prevention' in reproductive medicine	243	(8)
Elisabeth Hildt
Preimplantation diagnosis -- implications for genetic counselling	251	(10)
Ruth Chadwick
Part Six: Health care, justice and regulation
Legal regulations concerning preimplantation diagnosis	261	(12)
Jennifer Gunning
Reproductive technology and the slippery slope argument: A message in Blood	273	(12)
Tony McGleenan
Measuring the benefits of IVF	285	(8)
Emma McIntosh
Mandy Ryan
Justice and preimplantation diagnosis	293	(6)
Joke de Witte
The role of ethics codes in medicine -- how can they be helpful in making decisions?	299	(12)
Stella Reiter-Theil
Index	311