TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melo-Martín,Inmaculada de
TI  - Making babies: biomedical technologies, reproductive ethics, and public policy 
SN  - 0792351169
AV  - RG133.5 .M45 1998
U1  - 176 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Dordrecht, Boston
PB  - Kluwer Academic
KW  - Human reproductive technology
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Fertilization in vitro
KW  - Technology Assessment, Biomedical
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: the importance of evaluating assessments of in vitro fertilization -- Overview of technology assessment -- In vitro fertilization: contextualizing the technology -- Ethics and uncertainty: in vitro fertilization and risks to women's health -- In vitro fertilization and the ethics of nonconservative medical care -- Free informed consent and in vitro fertilization -- Conclusion and future trends
N2  - "The present work tries to show that problematic evaluations of new technologies such as IVF may be as dangerous as no evaluation at all. Because technology assessments may give people a false sense of security, poor ones may serve as a legitimization of premature, dangerous, or misunderstood decisions. Careful analysis of technology assessments may uncover particular epistemological and ethical problems that could misguide public policy. This book is the first to offer an extensive evaluation of four prominent institutional assessments of IVF. This philosophical analysis reveals how inadequate assessments may produce policies that are not in the public's best interests."--Publisher description
ER  -