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1 online resource (xxiii, 457 pages) : illustrations, charts |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
EU-wide multidisciplinary study "Ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics" performed from 2005 to 2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-445) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction and overview / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber [and others] -- Ethics of care in prenatal diagnosis : implications of variations in law, policy, and practice in EDIG countries / Helen Statham and Joanie Dimavicius -- State of the art in prenatal diagnosis / The-Hung Bui and Vardiella Meiner -- Empirical data evaluation on EDIG (ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics) / Tamara Fischmann [and others] -- Some comments of countries that collected empirical and clinical data / Gherardo Amadei [and others] -- Interviewing women and couples after prenatal and genetic diagnostics / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber [and others] -- Crisis intervention after prenatal diagnostics : an example / Antje Haselbacher, Manfred Beutel -- "I'd also like to be in good hope myself for once." The highly problematic decision-making process within the framework of PND and its dependency on a sufficiently developed, autonomous female identity / Andrea Belz -- Experience and ethics : ethical and methodological reflections on the integration of the EDIG study in the ethical landscape / Eve-Marie Engels -- Moral dilemmas and decision-making in prenatal genetic testing / Elisabeth Hildt -- The moral status of the foetus / Göran Collste -- Prenatal genetic counselling : conceptual and ethical issues / Anders Nordgren -- The interchange between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the understanding of ethical decisions / Yotam Benziman and Yair Tzivoni -- A model of integrated genetic counselling (IGC) : EDIG as a transformation promoter in PND / Edgardo Caverzasi [and others] -- Prenatal and genetic diagnostics and trisomia 21 : a current debate of ethical and psychosocial implications with reference to Greece / Gerasimos Kolaitis [and others] -- PND in a Christian and Muslim culture. The EDIG project in Thrace, Greece / Konstantia Ladopoulou [and others] -- Introducing new tests in genetic diagnostics : details of some ongoing controversial discussions in Swedish media / Stephan Hau. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Prenatal diagnosis. |
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Fetus -- Abnormalities -- Diagnosis.
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Fetus -- Abnormalities -- Diagnosis. |
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Genetic screening -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Genetic screening -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Prenatal Diagnosis -- ethics. |
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Genetic Counseling -- ethics. |
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Genetic Diseases, Inborn -- diagnosis. |
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Genetic Testing -- ethics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Leuzinger-Bohleber, Marianne.
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Engels, Eve-Marie.
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Tsiantis, J. (John)
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| Added Title |
Ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Janus face of prenatal diagnostics. London : Karnac, 2008 9781855756748 (DLC) 2009293154 (OCoLC)228374333 |
| ISBN |
9781849406451 (electronic book) |
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1849406456 (electronic book) |
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128307057X |
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9781283070577 |
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9781855756748 |
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1855756749 |
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