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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickenson, Donna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human reproductive technology.

Perinatology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Perinatology.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book brings together an unusually broad range of experts from reproductive medicine, medical ethics and law to address the important ethical problems in maternal-fetal medicine which impact directly on clinical practice. The book is divided into parts by the stages of pregnancy, within which the authors cover four main areas: • the balance of power in the doctor-patient relationship and the justifiable limits of paternalism and autonomy • the impact of new technologies and new diseases • disability and enhancement (the 'designer baby') • difference - to what extent should the clinician respect the tenets of other faiths in a multicultural society, even when the doctor believes requested interventions or non-interventions to be morally wrong? The aim throughout is to unite analytic philosophy and actual practice. This is an important text not only for clinicians involved in human reproduction, but also philosophers and lawyers.

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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12848-X

1-280-16014-4

9786610160143

0-511-11817-1

1-139-14622-X

0-511-06653-8

0-511-06022-X

0-511-30789-6

0-511-54512-6

0-511-06866-2

OCLC:

70744781