Genetics in human reproduction / 
edited by Elisabeth Hildt and Sigrid Graumann. 
 - xvi, 320 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>184014825X 9781840148251 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98074633 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Preimplantation genetic diagnosis--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses<br/>Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses<br/>Genetic engineering--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses<br/>Medical ethics<br/>Prenatal diagnosis.<br/>Reproduction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RG628.3.P74  / G46 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>612.6