Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis
Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with new facets of a Faustian seduction. Are we „playing God“ more and more, as claimed by critical authors of modernity? Achievements in genetic research produce ethical dilemmas which need to be the subject of reflection and debate in mod...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2011, 2011
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Preface.- 1 Ethical Dilemmas Due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics. An interdisciplinary, European study (EDIG, 2005-2008).- 2 Managing complex psychoanalytic research projects applying mapping techniques – using the example of the EDIG study
- 3 Distress and Ethical Dilemmas due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics – some empirical results
- 4 Reconstruction of pregnant women’s subjective attitudes towards prenatal diagnostics – a qualitative analysis of open questions
- 5 Prenatal testing: women’s experiences in case of a conspicuous test result
- 6 Caring for women during prenatal diagnosis: personal perspectives from the United Kingdom
- 7 Cooperation is rewarding if the boundary conditions fit: interdisciplinary cooperation in the context of prenatal diagnostics. 8 Prenatal genetic counselling: reflections on drawing policy conclusions from empirical findings
- 9 Taking risk in striving for certainty. Discrepancies in the moral deliberations of counsellors and pregnant women undergoing PND
- 10 Ethical thoughts on counselling and accompanying women and couples before, during and after prenatal diagnosis
- 11 Client, Patient, Subject; whom should we treat? On the significance of the unconscious in medical care and counselling
- 12 Decision to know and decision to act
- 13 Moral decision-making, narratives and genetic diagnostics
- 14 Prenatal diagnostics and ethical dilemmas in a mother having a child with Down syndrome
- 15 Is there one way of looking at ethical dilemmas in different cultures?- Index