The Janus face of prenatal diagnostics : a European study bridging ethics, psychoanalysis, and medicine /
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| Imprint: | London : Karnac, 2008. |
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| Description: | xxiii, 457 p. : ill., charts ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7541408 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- About the Editors and Contributors
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction
- Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
- Chapter 2. Ethics of care in prenatal diagnosis: implications of variations in law, policy, and practice in EDIG countries
- Chapter 3. State of the art in prenatal diagnosis
- Part II. Findings of Edig
- Chapter 4. Empirical data evaluation on EDIG (Ethical Dilemmas due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics)
- Chapter 5. Some comments of countries that collected empirical and clinical data
- Chapter 6. Interviewing women and couples after prenatal and genetic diagnostics
- Chapter 7. Crisis intervention after prenatal diagnostics: an example
- Chapter 8. "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
- Part III. Ethical Considerations About Edig
- Chapter 9. Experience and ethics: ethical and methodological reflections on the integration of the EDIG study in the ethical landscape
- Chapter 10. Moral dilemmas and decision-making in prenatal genetic testing
- Chapter 11. The moral status of the foetus
- Chapter 12. Prenatal genetic counselling: conceptual and ethical issues
- Chapter 13. The interchange between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the understanding of ethical decisions
- Part IV. Clinical, Medical, and Societal Implications
- Chapter 14. A model of integrated genetic counselling (IGC): EDIG as a transformation promoter in PND
- Chapter 15. Prenatal and genetic diagnostics and trisomia 21: a current debate of ethical and psychosocial implications with reference to Greece
- Chapter 16. PND in a Christian and Muslim culture. The EDIG project in Thrace, Greece
- Chapter 17. Introducing new tests in genetic diagnostics: details of some ongoing controversial discussions in Swedish media
- Bibliography
- Index
