Title Quality of life and human difference : genetic testing, health care, and disability / edited by David Wasserman, Robert Wachbroit, Jerome Bickenbach

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description xi, 273 pages; 23 cm Series Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy. Contents Introduction / David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach and Robert Wachbroit -- 1. Assessing quality of life : clinical versus health policy uses / Robert Wachbroit -- 2. Predicting genetic disability while commodifying health / Anita Silvers -- 3. Preventing genetically transmitted disabilities while respecting persons with disabilities / Dan W. Brock -- 4. Disability, ideology, and quality of life : a bias in biomedical ethics / Ron Amundson -- 5. Values for health states in QALYs and DALYs : desirability versus well-being and worth / Erik Nord -- 6. Preventing the existence of people with disabilities / Jeff McMahan -- 7. Where is the sin in synecdoche? : prenatal testing and the parent-child relationship / Adrienne Asch and David Wasserman -- 8. The social context of individual choice / Tom Shakespeare -- 9. Disability and health systems assessment / Jerome Bickenbach Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects. Prenatal diagnosis -- Social aspects. Fetus -- Abnormalities -- Diagnosis. Genetic screening -- Moral and ethical aspects. Genetic screening -- Social aspects. Medical ethics. Quality of life. Author Bickenbach, Jerome Edmund. Wasserman, David T. Wachbroit, Robert Samuel. LC no. 2004062839 ISBN 0521832012 0521539714 0521832012 : 9780521832014 0521539714 : 9780521539715

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