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Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
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Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
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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.
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