Genetics in Human Reproduction

✍ Scribed by Elisabeth Hildt (editor), Sigrid Graumann (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Part One: Medical and scientific view
1 Clinical experience with PID and ICSI
2 The various micromanipulative procedures: State of the art, chances, and risks
3 The relation between ICSI and genetic diagnosis from an ethical point of view
4 Modification of IVF application and access to IVF services by PID?
5 Examples for possible PID indications - scientific background and reflections on effects
6 Should there be a uniform list of genetic diseases allowing access to PID?
7 Nuclear transplantation - medical and ethical aspects
Part Two: Personal interests and moral implications
1 Ethics of preimplantation genetic diagnosis
2 Preimplantation diagnosis. A reflection in light of a personalist ethics
3 Ethical aspects of germline gene therapy
4 ‘Quality control’ in reproduction - what can it mean, what should it mean?
5 Does gene therapy have ethically problematic effects on identity?
Part Three: Moral rights and duties
1 Does PID solve the moral problems of prenatal diagnosis? A rights analysis
2 Ethics of Research on Human Embryos
3 Categorical arguments - Pro life versus pro choice?
4 Selection through prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis
Part Four: Social concepts and moral implications
1 Eugenics comes back with medically assisted procreation
2 Germline gene ‘therapy’: Public opinions with regard to eugenics
3 Predictive genetic medicine - a new concept of disease
4 Animal Models: an anthropologist considers Dolly
5 Issues surrounding preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy
6 Beside the point - reflections on passivity
Part Five: Choices and decision making
1 What claims can be based on the desire for a healthy child? Towards an ethics of 'informed desires'
2 The European Alliance of Genetic Support Groups
3 Some reflections on the use of the term 'prevention' in reproductive medicine
4 Preimplantation diagnosis - implications for genetic counselling
Part Six: Health care, justice and regulation
1 Legal regulations concerning preimplantation diagnosis
2 Reproductive technology and the slippery slope argument: A message in Blood
3 Measuring the benefits of IVF
4 Justice and preimplantation diagnosis
5 The role of ethics codes in medicine - how can they be helpful in making decisions?
Index