The Janus Face Of Prenatal Diagnostics

Author : Eve-Marie Engels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429921179
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics written by Eve-Marie Engels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology creates new opportunities and possibilities, but also new dangers, risks, and ethical concerns. In this volume, ethical dilemmas in the context of a specific biomedical technology are discussed. Experts in ethics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and medicine jointly investigated a field of prenatal and genetic research that seems particularly challenging: prenatal diagnostics. In many European countries amniocentesis, for example, is a routine diagnostic tool for women becoming pregnant after the age of thirty-five. In recent decades, enormous progress has been made in diagnosing genetically-based diseases and other serious prenatal abnormalities. Today, we know that a positive prenatal genetic diagnostic creates distress for all women and their partners, and necessitates making the difficult decision as to whether or not to allow the pregnancy to continue. As is demonstrated in this volume through the summaries of interviews with couples, the reactions of women and their partners who are facing this situation can be very different. The new and innovative interdisciplinary dialogue on this topic that is presented in this volume offers a deeper understanding of the ethical dilemmas raised by prenatal and genetic diagnostics, and explores ways to support couples in this extremely difficult situation.

Author : Eve-Marie Engels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367328092
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics written by Eve-Marie Engels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology creates new opportunities and possibilities, but also new dangers, risks, and ethical concerns. In this volume, ethical dilemmas in the context of a s

Author : Eve-Marie Engels
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ISBN 13 : 9780429482175
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Download or read book The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics written by Eve-Marie Engels and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology creates new opportunities and possibilities, but also new dangers, risks, and ethical concerns. In this volume, ethical dilemmas in the context of a specific biomedical technology are discussed. Experts in ethics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and medicine jointly investigated a field of prenatal and genetic research that seems particularly challenging: prenatal diagnostics. The new and innovative interdisciplinary dialogue on this topic that is presented in this volume offers a deeper understanding of the ethical dilemmas raised by prenatal and genetic diagnostics, and explores ways to support couples in this extremely difficult situation.In many European countries amniocentesis, for example, is a routine diagnostic tool for women becoming pregnant after the age of thirty-five. In recent decades, enormous progress has been made in diagnosing genetically-based diseases and other serious prenatal abnormalities. Today, we know that a positive prenatal genetic diagnostic creates distress for all women and their partners, and necessitates making the difficult decision as to whether or not to allow the pregnancy to continue. As is demonstrated in this volume through the summaries of interviews with couples, the reactions of women and their partners who are facing this situation can be very different."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tamara Fischmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400713967
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis written by Tamara Fischmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with new facets of a Faustian seduction. Are we „playing God“ more and more, as claimed by critical authors of modernity? Achievements in genetic research produce ethical dilemmas which need to be the subject of reflection and debate in modern societies. Denial of ambivalences that ethical dilemmas arouse constitutes a threat to societies as well as to individuals. The book presents a compilation of some of the results of the interdisciplinary European study “Ethical Dilemmas Due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics” (EDIG), which investigated some of these dilemmas in detail in a field which is particularly challenging: prenatal diagnosis. When results from prenatal diagnosis show fetal abnormalities, women and their partners are confronted with ethical dilemmas regarding: the right to know and the right not to know; decision-making about the remainder of the pregnancy and the desire for a healthy child; responsibility for the unborn child, for its well-being and possible suffering; life and death. This book provides answers from an ethical, psychoanalytical and medical viewpoint.

Author : Eve-Marie Engels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429906943
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Janus Face of Prenatal Diagnostics written by Eve-Marie Engels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology creates new opportunities and possibilities, but also new dangers, risks, and ethical concerns. In this volume, ethical dilemmas in the context of a specific biomedical technology are discussed. Experts in ethics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and medicine jointly investigated a field of prenatal and genetic research that seems particularly challenging: prenatal diagnostics. The new and innovative interdisciplinary dialogue on this topic that is presented in this volume offers a deeper understanding of the ethical dilemmas raised by prenatal and genetic diagnostics, and explores ways to support couples in this extremely difficult situation.

Author : Miroslav Radenkovic
Publisher : Trivent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 6158182125
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heading Towards Humans Again written by Miroslav Radenkovic and published by Trivent Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioethics has become an important part of everyday dynamics, encompassing both clinical and research ethics. This edited collection aims to challenge some critical cornerstones of today's contemporary bioethical concerns and issues. The individual chapters were prepared by esteemed scholars with international background in their specialties. Nowadays technological revolution is reaching a whole new level, continuously challenging us to define what is human. Keeping this in mind, the authors provided comprehensive and thoughtful views on different bioethical issues, including cultural and social influences on contemporary bioethics, posthumanism and transhumanism, death, the critical importance of informed consent, prenatal genetic testing, gene and cell therapy, mandatory vaccinations, cannabis use, antidoping concerns, treatment of rare diseases and pain management, and finally educational and legislative lines of reasoning.

Author : Marina Altmann de Litvan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429923031
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time for Change written by Marina Altmann de Litvan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we, analysts, evaluate whether analysis is generating transformations in our patients? The IPA Project Committee on Clinical Observation and Testing offers a tool: The Three-Level Model for Observing Patient Transformations (3-LM); a guide for refining, conceptualizing, and systematizing clinical observations about patient transformations. It seeks to enhance clinical observations, making them more accurate and more useful for theory testing and theory building through a systematic analysis of clinical material. Time for Change: Tracking Transformations in Psychoanalysis - The Three-Level Model focuses on the question of how to observe changes in psychoanalysis. It presents the model and the outcome of having worked with the 3-LM tool, which has been applied to adult patients, adolescents and children, as well as in analytic training. The 3-LM goes from clinic to theory, from implicit to explicit theory, from unquestioned hypotheses to reviewed hypotheses enriched by the work on the clinical material after its discussion by several participants with different perspectives.

Author : Kristien Hens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319428349
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parental Responsibility in the Context of Neuroscience and Genetics written by Kristien Hens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should parents aim to make their children as normal as possible to increase their chances to “fit in”? Are neurological and mental health conditions a part of children’s identity and if so, should parents aim to remove or treat these? Should they aim to instill self-control in their children? Should prospective parents take steps to insure that, of all the children they could have, they choose the ones with the best likely start in life? This volume explores all of these questions and more. Against the background of recent findings and expected advances in neuroscience and genetics, the extent and limits of parental responsibility are increasingly unclear. Awareness of the effects of parental choices on children’s wellbeing, as well as evolving norms about the moral status of children, have further increased expectations from (prospective) parents to take up and act on their changing responsibilities. The contributors discuss conceptual issues such as the meaning and sources of moral responsibility, normality, treatment, and identity. They also explore more practical issues such as how responsibility for children is practiced in Yoruba culture in Nigeria or how parents and health professionals in Belgium perceive the dilemmas generated by prenatal diagnosis.

Author : I. Glenn Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485979
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics written by I. Glenn Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the framing of disability has serious implications for legal, medical, and policy treatments of disability.

Author : Esa Roos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429916159
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medea written by Esa Roos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the Euripides' Medea fantasy as an unconscious determinant of psychogenic sterility, a fantasy that forms an unrecognized part of the self-representation. It is addressed to people who are interested in womanhood, its fortunes and misfortunes, creativity and destructiveness.