The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics

by Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne; Engels, Eve-marie; Tsiantis, John

• ISBN13: 9781855756748
• ISBN10: 1855756749
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-30
• Publisher: KARNAC BOOKS

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
About the Editors and Contributors	p. xiii
Preface	p. xxi
Introduction	p. 1
Introduction and overview	p. 3
Ethics of care in prenatal diagnosis: implications of variations in law, policy, and practice in EDIG countries	p. 45
State of the art in prenatal diagnosis	p. 61
Findings of Edig	p. 87
Empirical data evaluation on EDIG (Ethical Dilemmas due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics)	p. 89
Some comments of countries that collected empirical and clinical data	p. 137
Interviewing women and couples after prenatal and genetic diagnostics	p. 151
Crisis intervention after prenatal diagnostics: an example	p. 219
"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	p. 237
Ethical Considerations About Edig	p. 249
Experience and ethics: ethical and methodological reflections on the integration of the EDIG study in the ethical landscape	p. 251
Moral dilemmas and decision-making in prenatal genetic testing	p. 273
The moral status of the foetus	p. 289
Prenatal genetic counselling: conceptual and ethical issues	p. 307
The interchange between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the understanding of ethical decisions	p. 327
Clinical, Medical, and Societal Implications	p. 345
A model of integrated genetic counselling (IGC): EDIG as a transformation promoter in PND	p. 347
Prenatal and genetic diagnostics and trisomia 21: a current debate of ethical and psychosocial implications with reference to Greece	p. 369
PND in a Christian and Muslim culture. The EDIG project in Thrace, Greece	p. 381
Introducing new tests in genetic diagnostics: details of some ongoing controversial discussions in Swedish media	p. 399
Bibliography	p. 421
Index	p. 447
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