The Janus face of prenatal diagnostics a European study bridging ethics, psychoanalysis, and medicine (Karnac, 2008)
EU-wide multidisciplinary study "Ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics" performed from 2005 to 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-445) and index
Introduction and overview / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber ... [et al.] -- Ethics of care in prenatal diagnosis : implications of variations in law, policy, and practice in EDIG countries / Helen Statham and Joanie Dimavicius -- State of the art in prenatal diagnosis / The-Hung Bui and Vardiella Meiner -- Empirical data evaluation on EDIG (ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics) / Tamara Fischmann ... [et al.] -- Some comments of countries that collected empirical and clinical data / Gherardo Amadei ... [et al.] -- Interviewing women and couples after prenatal and genetic diagnostics / Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber ... [et al.] -- Crisis intervention after prenatal diagnostics : an example / Antje Haselbacher, Manfred Beutel -- "I'd also like to be in good hope myself for once." The highly problematic decision-making process within the framework of PND and its dependency on a sufficiently developed, autonomous female identity / Andrea Belz --
- Experience and ethics : ethical and methodological reflections on the integration of the EDIG study in the ethical landscape / Eve-Marie Engels -- Moral dilemmas and decision-making in prenatal genetic testing / Elisabeth Hildt -- The moral status of the foetus / Göran Collste -- Prenatal genetic counselling : conceptual and ethical issues / Anders Nordgren -- The interchange between psychoanalysis and philosophy in the understanding of ethical decisions / Yotam Benziman and Yair Tzivoni -- A model of integrated genetic counselling (IGC) : EDIG as a transformation promoter in PND / Edgardo Caverzasi ... [et al.] -- Prenatal and genetic diagnostics and trisomia 21 : a current debate of ethical and psychosocial implications with reference to Greece / Gerasimos Kolaitis ... [et al.] -- PND in a Christian and Muslim culture. The EDIG project in Thrace, Greece / Konstantia Ladopoulou ... [et al.] --
- Introducing new tests in genetic diagnostics : details of some ongoing controversial discussions in Swedish media / Stephan Hau