The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine Serving Society or Serving the Patient?

Medical or health-oriented screening programs are amongst the most debated aspects of health care and public health practices in health care and public health ethics, as well as health policy discussions. In spite of this, most treatments of screening in the research literature restrict themselves t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Juth, Niklas, Munthe, Christian (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 6.5.2 Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: The Limits of Context Relativity.-6.5.3 Screening and Justice: The Case Against Allocating Health Care Resources to Screening
  • 6.6 Revisiting the Wilson and Jungner Criteria for Screening
  • 6.7 Closing
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • 1.1 The Wilson and Jungner Criteria
  • 1.2 Point and Plan
  • 1.3 The Concept of Screening
  • Chapter 2: Why Screening?
  • 2.1 Screening, Treatment and Prevention: Preliminary Remarks
  • 2.2 Health: Life and Well-being
  • 2.2.1 Health and Counselling
  • 2.2.2 The Good of People and of the Population
  • 2.3 Autonomy
  • 2.3.1 Respecting and Promoting Autonomy
  • 2.3.2 Promoting Autonomy through Screening
  • 2.4 Justice
  • 2.5 Summary.-Chapter 3: Screening – What, When and Whom?
  • 3.1 Diseases and Groups
  • 3.1.1 Prenatal Screening
  • 3.1.2 Neonatal Screening
  • 3.1.2.1 Reasons for Screening in the Neonatal Period
  • 3.1.2.2 Neonatal Screening and Parental Informed Consent
  • 3.1.2.3 Expanding Neonatal Screening – How Far?.-3.1.3 Child and Adolescent Screening.-. 3.1.3.1 Stigmatisation.-3.1.3.2 The Child as Decision Maker.-3.1.4 Adult Screening
  • 3.2 Testing and Analysis.-3.2.1 Safety.-3.2.2 Validity
  • 3.2.3 Predictive Value
  • 3.3 Treatments.-3.3.1 Abortion as Treatment.-3.3.2 Counselling as Treatment
  • 3.4 Summary.-Chapter 4: Screening – How?
  • 4.1 Informed Consent.-4.2 Counselling
  • 4.2.1 Genetic Counselling as a Template.-4.2.2 Expansion: Shared Decision Making
  • 4.3 Funding and Participation
  •  4.4 Summary.-Chapter 5: Case Studies
  • 5.1 Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis.-5.2 Neonatal Screening for Fragile X
  • 5.3 Mammography Screening.-5.4 PSA Screening for Prostate Cancer.-Chapter 6: Serving Society or Serving the Patient?.-6.1 Summary of the Analysis So far.-6.2 The Public Health – Health Care Tension Area.-6.3 The Relevance of a Social Science Perspective.-6.4 An Institutional Approach to health-related Ethics: A Sketch.-6.5 Applying the Institutional Approach: Three Cases
  • 6.5.1 Institutions, Functions and Ethics: Reproductive Care vs. Communicable Disease