The Janus face of prenatal diagnostics
Subtitle: a European study bridging ethics, psychoanalysis, and medicine
By: edited by Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Eve-Marie Engels, and John Tsiantis.
Contributors: Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne.; Engels, Eve-Marie.; Tsiantis, J.
Publisher: Karnac
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9781855756748
Subjects: Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects; Fetus -- Abnormalities -- Diagnosis; Genetic screening -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medical ethics; Prenatal Diagnosis -- ethics
Other titles: Ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics.
Description: EU-wide multidisciplinary study "Ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics" performed from 2005 to 2008.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-445) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and overview / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber ... [et al.]; title: Ethics of care in prenatal diagnosis : implications of variations in law, policy, and practice in EDIG countries / Helen Statham and Joanie Dimavicius; title: State of the art in prenatal diagnosis / The-Hung Bui and Vardiella Meiner; title: Empirical data evaluation on EDIG (ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics) / Tamara Fischmann ... [et al.]; title: Some comments of countries that collected empirical and clinical data / Gherardo Amadei ... [et al.]; title: Interviewing women and couples after prenatal and genetic diagnostics / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber ... [et al.]; title: Crisis intervention after prenatal diagnostics : an example / Antje Haselbacher, Manfred Beutel; title: "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 / Andrea Belz; title: Experience and ethics : ethical and methodological reflections on the integration of the EDIG study in the ethical landscape / Eve-Marie Engels; title: Moral dilemmas and decision-making in prenatal genetic testing / Elisabeth Hildt; title: The moral status of the foetus / Göran Collste; title: Prenatal genetic counselling : conceptual and ethical issues / Anders Nordgren; title: The interchange between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the understanding of ethical decisions / Yotam Benziman and Yair Tzivoni; title: A model of integrated genetic counselling (IGC) : EDIG as a transformation promoter in PND / Edgardo Caverzasi ... [et al.]; title: Prenatal and genetic diagnostics and trisomia 21 : a current debate of ethical and psychosocial implications with reference to Greece / Gerasimos Kolaitis ... [et al.]; title: PND in a Christian and Muslim culture. The EDIG project in Thrace, Greece / Konstantia Ladopoulou ... [et al.]; title: Introducing new tests in genetic diagnostics : details of some ongoing controversial discussions in Swedish media / Stephan Hau.