Ethical issues in maternal-fetal medicine
By: edited by Donna L. Dickenson
Contributors: Dickenson, Donna
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
Subjects: Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects; Perinatology -- Moral and ethical aspects; Medical ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: recent debates in maternal-fetal medicine - what are the ethical questions? / Donna L. Dickenson; title: Overview: a framework for reproductive ethics / Carson Strong; title: Multicultural issues in maternal-fetal medicine / Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten; title: HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research / Paquita de Zulueta; title: Genetic screening: should parents seek to perfect their children genetically: / Rosemarie Tong; title: Is there a duty not to reproduce? / Jean McHale; title: Between fathers and fetuses: the social construction of male reproduction and the politics of fetal harm / Cynthia R. Daniels; title: Restricting the freedom of pregnant women / Susan Bewley; title: Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning / Franc̜oise Shenfield; title: A case-study in IVF: paternalism and autonomy in a 'high-risk' pregnancy / Gillian M. Lockwood; title: The ethics of secrecy in donor insemination / Heather Widdows; title: Ethical and social aspects of evaluating fetal screening / Elina Hemminki; title: Prenatal counselling and images of disability / Priscilla Alderson; title: Models of motherhood in the abortion debate: self-sacrifice versus self-defence / Eileen McDonagh; title: Who owns embryonic and fetal tissue? / Donna L. Dickenson; title: The fewer the better? Ethical issues in multiple gestation / Mary B. Mahowald; title: Caesarean section: who chooses - the woman or her doctor? / Wendy Savage; title: Judgements of non-compliance in pregnancy / Franc̜oise Baylis and Susan Sherwin; title: Do the new reproductive technologies benefit or harm children? / Christine Overall; title: Are there lives not worth living? When is it morally wrong to reproduce? / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris; title: Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates / Neil McIntosh