Genetics in human reproduction /
Genetics in human reproduction /
edited by Elisabeth Hildt and Sigrid Graumann.
- xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Medical and scientific view -- Clinical experience with PID and ICSI -- The various micromanipulative procedures: State of the art, changes, and risks -- The relation between ICSI and genetic diagnosis from an ethical point of view -- Modification of IVF application and access to IVF services by PID? -- Examples for possible PID indications - scientific background and reflections on effects -- Should there be a uniform list of genetic diseases allowing access to PID? -- Nuclear transplantation - medical and ethical aspects -- Personal interests and moral implications -- Ethics of preimplantation genetic diagnosis -- Preimplantation diagnosis. A reflection in light of a personalist ethics -- Ethical aspects of germline gene therapy -- 'Quality control' in reproduction - what can it mean, what should it mean? -- Does gene therapy have ethically problematic effects on identity? -- Moral rights and duties -- Does PID solve the moral problems of prenatal diagnosis? A rights analysis -- Ethics of Research on Human Embryos -- Categorical arguments - Pro life versus pro choice? -- Selection through prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis -- Social concepts and moral implications -- Eugenics comes back with medically assisted procreation -- Germline gene 'therapy': Public opinions with regard to eugenics -- Predictive genetic medicine - a new concept of disease -- Animal Models: an anthropologist considers Dolly -- Issues surrounding preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy -- Beside the point - reflections on passivity -- Choices and decision making -- What claims can be based on the desire for a healthy child? Towards an ethics of 'informed desires' -- The European Alliance of Genetic Support Groups -- Some reflections on the use of the term 'prevention' in reproductive medicine -- Preimplantation diagnosis - implications for genetic counselling -- Health care, justice and regulation -- Legal regulations concerning preimplantation diagnosis -- Reproductive technology and the slippery slope argument: A message in Blood -- Measuring the benefits of IVF -- Justice and preimplantation diagnosis -- The role of ethics codes in medicine - how can they be helpful in making decisions? -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
184014825X 9781840148251
98074633
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses
Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses
Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses
Medical ethics
Prenatal diagnosis.
Reproduction.
RG628.3.P74 / G46 1999
612.6
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Medical and scientific view -- Clinical experience with PID and ICSI -- The various micromanipulative procedures: State of the art, changes, and risks -- The relation between ICSI and genetic diagnosis from an ethical point of view -- Modification of IVF application and access to IVF services by PID? -- Examples for possible PID indications - scientific background and reflections on effects -- Should there be a uniform list of genetic diseases allowing access to PID? -- Nuclear transplantation - medical and ethical aspects -- Personal interests and moral implications -- Ethics of preimplantation genetic diagnosis -- Preimplantation diagnosis. A reflection in light of a personalist ethics -- Ethical aspects of germline gene therapy -- 'Quality control' in reproduction - what can it mean, what should it mean? -- Does gene therapy have ethically problematic effects on identity? -- Moral rights and duties -- Does PID solve the moral problems of prenatal diagnosis? A rights analysis -- Ethics of Research on Human Embryos -- Categorical arguments - Pro life versus pro choice? -- Selection through prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis -- Social concepts and moral implications -- Eugenics comes back with medically assisted procreation -- Germline gene 'therapy': Public opinions with regard to eugenics -- Predictive genetic medicine - a new concept of disease -- Animal Models: an anthropologist considers Dolly -- Issues surrounding preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy -- Beside the point - reflections on passivity -- Choices and decision making -- What claims can be based on the desire for a healthy child? Towards an ethics of 'informed desires' -- The European Alliance of Genetic Support Groups -- Some reflections on the use of the term 'prevention' in reproductive medicine -- Preimplantation diagnosis - implications for genetic counselling -- Health care, justice and regulation -- Legal regulations concerning preimplantation diagnosis -- Reproductive technology and the slippery slope argument: A message in Blood -- Measuring the benefits of IVF -- Justice and preimplantation diagnosis -- The role of ethics codes in medicine - how can they be helpful in making decisions? -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Pt. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 4. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
184014825X 9781840148251
98074633
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses
Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses
Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses
Medical ethics
Prenatal diagnosis.
Reproduction.
RG628.3.P74 / G46 1999
612.6