TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hildt,Elisabeth
AU  - Graumann,Sigrid
TI  - Genetics in human reproduction
SN  - 184014825X
AV  - RG628.3.P74 G46 1999
U1  - 612.6 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Aldershot, Brookfield, Vt.
PB  - Ashgate Pub
KW  - Preimplantation genetic diagnosis
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Human reproductive technology
KW  - Genetic engineering
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Prenatal diagnosis
KW  - Reproduction
N1  - 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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