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1 online resource (1 volume) |
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Routledge revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Part One: Medical and scientific view; 1 Clinical experience with PID and ICSI; 2 The various micromanipulative procedures: State of the art, chances, 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 |
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6 Should there be a uniform list of genetic diseases allowing access to PID?7 Nuclear transplantation -- medical and ethical aspects; Part Two: 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?; Part Three: Moral rights and duties |
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1 Does PID solve the moral problems of prenatal diagnosis? A rights analysis2 Ethics of Research on Human Embryos; 3 Categorical arguments -- Pro life versus pro choice?; 4 Selection through prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis; Part Four: 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 |
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5 Issues surrounding preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy6 Beside the point -- reflections on passivity; Part Five: 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; Part Six: Health care, justice and regulation; 1 Legal regulations concerning preimplantation diagnosis |
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2 Reproductive technology and the slippery slope argument: A message in Blood3 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 |
| Summary |
Published in 1999, this book discusses issues related to the current and possible future technological progress in genetic technology linked to in vitro fertilization, specifically preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy, from a scientific and medical as well as from a social, juridical and ethical point of view. The 31 contributions are divided into six sections medical and scientific view, personal interests and moral implications, moral rights and duties, social concepts and moral implications, choices and decision making, and justice in health care and legal regulation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Elisabeth Hildt is professor of philosophy and director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at Illinois Institute of Technology, where her research focuses on philosophical and ethical issues in neuroscience, most significantly the field of cognitive enhancement. Her previous appointments include scientific coordinator of the interdisciplinary project European Network for Biomedical Ethics and assistant professor at the Chair for Ethics in the Life Sciences at the University of Tubingen. Prior to moving to the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2014, she spent six years as the head of the Research Group on Neuroethics/Neurophilosophy at the University of Mainz. She serves on the editorial board of PLOS ONE and the American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience (AJOB Neuroscience). She has authored and edited twelve other books on neuroethics and biomedical ethics, and is the author of 70 articles on the subject |
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Print version record |
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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Sexuality.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Genetics & Genomics.
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Genetic engineering -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hildt, Elisabeth, editor.
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Graumann, Sigrid, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780429456619 |
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0429456611 |
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9780429852268 |
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0429852266 |
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9780429852251 |
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0429852258 |
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9780429852244 |
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042985224X |
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