Genetics in human reproduction / edited by Elisabeth Hildt and Sigrid Graumann.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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