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Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis

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Editors:
  1. Tamara Fischmann

    1. Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt, Germany

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  2. Elisabeth Hildt

    1. Mainz, Germany

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  • Empirical results of a European study illustrated in an easily understandable way
  • Interdisciplinary research made tangible for layman as well as professionals
  • Thorough analysis of ethical issues in prenatal diagnosis
  • Clinical case reports giving insight into psychoanalytic approaches of ethical dilemmas
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Ethical Dilemmas Due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics. An Interdisciplinary, European Study (EDIG, 2005–2008)

    • Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber
    Pages 1-34

  3. Managing Complex Psychoanalytic Research Projects Applying Mapping Techniques – Using the Example of the EDIG Study

    • Nicole Pfenning-Meerkötter
    Pages 35-50

  4. Distress and Ethical Dilemmas Due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics – Some Empirical Results

    • Tamara Fischmann
    Pages 51-64

  5. Reconstruction of Pregnant Women’s Subjective Attitudes Towards Prenatal Diagnostics – A Qualitative Analysis of Open Questions

    • Katrin Luise Läzer
    Pages 65-74

  6. Prenatal Testing: Women’s Experiences in Case of a Conspicuous Test Result

    • Elisabeth Hildt
    Pages 75-82

  7. Caring for Women During Prenatal Diagnosis: Personal Perspectives from the United Kingdom

    • Helen Statham, Joanie Dimavicius
    Pages 83-98

  8. Cooperation Is Rewarding If the Boundary Conditions Fit: Interdisciplinary Cooperation in the Context of Prenatal Diagnostics

    • Astrid Riehl-Emde, Anette Bruder, Claudia Pauli-Magnus, Vanessa Sieler
    Pages 99-108

  9. Prenatal Genetic Counselling: Reflections on Drawing Policy Conclusions from Empirical Findings

    • Anders Nordgren
    Pages 109-119

  10. Taking Risk in Striving for Certainty. Discrepancies in the Moral Deliberations of Counsellors and Pregnant Women Undergoing PND

    • László Kovács
    Pages 121-138

  11. Ethical Thoughts on Counselling and Accompanying Women and Couples Before, During and After Prenatal Diagnosis

    • Dierk Starnitzke
    Pages 139-146

  12. Client, Patient, Subject; Whom Should We Treat? On the Significance of the Unconscious in Medical Care and Counselling

    • Yair Tzivoni
    Pages 147-153

  13. Decision to Know and Decision to Act

    • Regina Sommer
    Pages 155-165

  14. Moral Decision-Making, Narratives and Genetic Diagnostics

    • Göran Collste
    Pages 167-175

  15. Prenatal Diagnostics and Ethical Dilemmas in a Mother Having a Child with Down Syndrome

    • Maria Samakouri, Evgenia Tsatalmpasidou, Konstantia Ladopoulou, Magdalini Katsikidou, Miltos Livaditis, Nicolas Tzavaras
    Pages 177-189

  16. Is There One Way of Looking at Ethical Dilemmas in Different Cultures?

    • Stephan Hau
    Pages 191-203

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 205-207
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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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  • Sigmund-Freud-Institut, Frankfurt, Germany

    Tamara Fischmann

  • Mainz, Germany

    Elisabeth Hildt

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