Ethical Issues in Maternal-Fetal Medicine (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Dickenson, Donna L.

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511060229
• Artikelnr.: 38206203

Autorenporträt

Donna Dickenson (b. 1946) was previously Leverhulme Reader in Medical Ethics and Law at Imperial College London; she has also held positions at the Open University (UK) and Yale University. She has written, co-written or edited seven books in medical ethics, including The Cambridge Workbook in Medical Ethics (2001, with Dr Michael Parker), and has been principal investigator on several European Commission, Wellcome Trust and Department of Health projects, primarily concerned with widening ethics education for medical practitioners. Her journal of publications, about forty in all, include articles in the British Medical Journal, Journal of Medical Ethics, Bioethics, Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, and other leading refereed journals. She was Secretary of the fifth International Association of Bioethics conference in London and also heavily involved in organising the simultaneous Feminist Approaches to Bioethics conference. Her 1997 book, Property, Women and Politics, developed a feminist reconstruction of philosophical concepts concerning property and applied them to property in the body, particularly such issues in reproductive ethics as abortion, ownership of fetal and ovarian tissue, and contract motherhood.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: recent debates in maternal-fetal ethics: what are the
ethical questions? Donna Dickenson; 2. Overview: a framework for
reproductive ethics Carson Strong; Part I. Generic Issues in Pregnancy: 3.
Multi-cultural issues in maternal-fetal medicine Sirkku Hellsten; 4. HIV in
pregnancy: ethical issues in screening and therapeutic research Paquita de
Zulueta; 5. Genetic screening: should parents seek to perfect their
children genetically? Rosemarie Tong; 6. Is there a duty not to reproduce?
Jean McHale; 7. Between fathers and fetuses Cynthia Daniels; 8. Restricting
the freedom of pregnant women Susan Bewley; Part II. Inception of
Pregnancy: New Reproductive Technologies: 9. Ethical issues in embryo
intervention and cloning Françoise Shenfield; 10. A case study in IVF:
paternalism and autonomy in a 'high-risk' pregnancy Gillian Lockwood; 11.
The ethics of secrecy in donor insemination Heather Widdows; Part III.
First and Second Trimester: 12. Ethical and social aspects of evaluating
fetal screening Elina Hemminki; 13. Prenatal counseling and images of
disability Priscilla Alderson; 14. Models of motherhood in the abortion
debate Eileen McDonagh; 15. Who owns embryonic and fetal tissue? Donna
Dickenson; 16. The fewer the better? Ethical issues in multiple gestation
Mary Mahowald; Part IV. Third Trimester: 17. Caesarean section - who
chooses, the woman or her doctor? Wendy Savage; 18. Compliance and
non-compliance of pregnant women with doctors' preferences Susan Sherwin
and Françoise Baylis; Part V. Neonatal Life: 19. Do new reproductive
technologies benefit or harm children? Christine Overall; 20. Are there
lives not worth living? Severe handicap and the 'worthless life' Rebecca
Bennett and John Harris; 21. Ethical issues in withdrawing life-sustaining
treatment from handicapped neonates Neil McIntosh; Index.