The Ethics of Reproductive Genetics Between Utility, Principles, and Virtues /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Soniewicka, Marta (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Philosophy and Medicine, 128
• Θέματα: Bioethics.; Medical ethics.; Human genetics.; Medicine-Philosophy.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Human Genetics.; Philosophy of Medicine.

This book is aimed at analyzing the foundations of medical ethics by considering different moral theories and their implications for judgments in clinical practice and policy-making. It provides a review of the major types of ethical theory that can be applied to medical and bioethical issues concer...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction (Marta Soniewicka)
• Part I. Moral theories applied to biomedicine
• 1. Ethical Theory and Moral Intuitions in Biomedical Decision-Making (Robert Audi)
• 2. Do Our Moral Judgments Need to Be Guided by Principles? (Roberto Andorno)
• 3. The Moral Philosophy of Genetic Counseling: Principles, Virtues and Utility Reconsidered (Marta Soniewicka)
• 4. Moral Virtue and the Principles of Practical Reason (Adriana Warmbier)
• 5. Parents, Special Obligations and Reproductive Genetics (Wojciech Lewandowski)
• 6. A Bioethic of Communion: Beyond Care and the Four Principles (Thaddeus Metz)
• 7. Context Counts - Bioethics in the Age of Globalization (Aeddan Shaw)
• 8. Are There Unsolvable Dilemmas in Bioethics? (Barbara Chyrowicz)
• Part II. The moral, legal and social challenges of reproductive genetics
• 9. Pragmatism, Law, and Morality: The Lessons of Buck v. Bell (Susan Haack)
• 10. Inheritable Human Genetic Modifications: How Far Can We Go? (Peter Sykora)
• 11. Reproductive and Therapeutic Cloning (Hennig Rosenau)
• 12. Embryo: When Definitions Really Matter? (Iñigo de Miguel Beriain)
• 13. Geneticization and Bioethics: Genetic Testing and the Right (not) to Know (Ewa Baum)
• 14. Prenatal Tests: The Elimination of Disability or Elimination of People with Disabilities? (Błażej Kmieciak)
• 15. Ethical, Legal and Cross-Cultural Issues Regarding Late Termination of Pregnancy and Umbilical Cord Blood Bio-Banking: African Perspectives (Sylvester Chima)
• 16. From Informed Choice to Distributed Decision-Making:  Studying Prenatal Decision Making as Processes of Knowledge Production (Nete Schwennesen)
• 17. Technical and Ethical Limits in Prenatal and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (Małgorzata Karbarz). 18. Conscientious Objection in Medical Practice - Between Religious, Moral and Legal Norms (Jakub Pawlikowski).