Ethical issues in maternal-fetal medicine / edited by Donna L. Dickenson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickenson, Donna.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Perinatology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Perinatology.

Medical ethics.

Reproduction.

Reproductive Techniques, Assisted.

Ethics, Medical.

Medical Subjects:

Reproduction.

Reproductive Techniques, Assisted.

Perinatology.

Ethics, Medical.

Physical Description:

xi, 353 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction: recent debates in maternal-fetal medicine - what are the ethical questions? / Donna L. Dickenson

Overview: a framework for reproductive ethics / Carson Strong

Multicultural issues in maternal-fetal medicine / Sirkku Kristiina Hellsten

HIV in pregnancy: ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research / Paquita de Zulueta

Genetic screening: should parents seek to perfect their children genetically: / Rosemarie Tong

Is there a duty not to reproduce? / Jean McHale

Between fathers and fetuses: the social construction of male reproduction and the politics of fetal harm / Cynthia R. Daniels

Restricting the freedom of pregnant women / Susan Bewley

Ethical issues in embryo interventions and cloning / Franc̜oise Shenfield

A case-study in IVF: paternalism and autonomy in a 'high-risk' pregnancy / Gillian M. Lockwood

The ethics of secrecy in donor insemination / Heather Widdows

Ethical and social aspects of evaluating fetal screening / Elina Hemminki

Prenatal counselling and images of disability / Priscilla Alderson

Models of motherhood in the abortion debate: self-sacrifice versus self-defence / Eileen McDonagh

Who owns embryonic and fetal tissue? / Donna L. Dickenson

The fewer the better? Ethical issues in multiple gestation / Mary B. Mahowald

Caesarean section: who chooses - the woman or her doctor? / Wendy Savage

Judgements of non-compliance in pregnancy / Franc̜oise Baylis and Susan Sherwin

Do the new reproductive technologies benefit or harm children? / Christine Overall

Are there lives not worth living? When is it morally wrong to reproduce? / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris

Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from handicapped neonates / Neil McIntosh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521662664

0521664748

OCLC:

46504901