The changing moral focus of newborn screening : an ethical analysis / by the President's Council on Bioethics.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical screening--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Medical screening.

Newborn infants--Medical examinations--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Newborn infants.

Medical screening--Moral and ethical aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 150 pages : digital, PDF file

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : President's Council on Bioethics, [2008]

Summary:

Provides the background information every parent needs in order to understand the issues, and to make informed choices, about genetic screening. Describes how the change in policy to include screening for untreatable as well as treatable diseases came about. Provides basic information about the techniques of screening, the practical and ethical choices parents must face, and the public policies behind those choices.

Contents:

Bioethics and the question of human dignity / Adam Schulman

Human dignity and respect for persons : a historical perspective on public bioethics / F. Daniel Davis

How to protect human dignity from science / Daniel C. Dennett

Human dignity and the mystery of the human soul / Robert P. Kraynak

Commentary on Kraynak / Daniel C. Dennett

Commentary on Dennett / Robert P. Kraynak

Commentary on Dennett / Alfonso Gómez-Lobo

Human dignity from a neurophilosophical perspective / Patricia S. Churchland

Commentary on Churchland / Gilbert Meilaender

Human uniqueness and human dignity : persons in nature and the nature of persons / Holmes Rolston III

Human dignity and the future of man / Charles Rubin

Dignity and enhancement / Nick Bostrom

Commentary on Bostrom / Charles Rubin

Human dignity and public discourse / Richard John Neuhaus

Modern and American dignity / Peter Augustine Lawler

Human dignity : exploring and explicating the Council's vision / Gilbert Meilaender

Commentary on Meilaender and Dennett / Peter Augustine Lawler

Commentary on Meilaender and Lawler / Diana Schaub

Defending human dignity / Leon R. Kass

Kant's concept of human dignity as a resource for bioethics / Susan M. Shell

Human dignity and political entitlements / Martha Nussbaum

Commentary on Nussbaum, Shell, and Kass / Diana Schaub

The irreducibly religious character of human dignity / David Gelernter

The nature and basis of human dignity / Patrick Lee and Robert P. George

Two arguments from human dignity / Paul Weithman

Dignity and bioethics : history, theory, and selected applications / Daniel P. Sulmasy

Human dignity and the seriously ill patient / Rebecca Dresser

The lived experience of human dignity / Edmund D. Pellegrino.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on Dec. 23, 2008).

"December 2008."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-150).

Other Format:

The changing moral focus of newborn screening

OCLC:

291022606