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Title:
The ethics of reproductive genetics : between utility, principles, and virtues / Marta Soniewicka, editor.
Author:
Soniewicka, Marta, editor.
Publication Information:
Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018.
Call Number:
QH438.7 .E85 2018
Abstract:
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 concerning reproductive genetics. In response to the debate on the most adequate ethical doctrine to guide biomedical decisions, this book formulates views that capture the best elements in each, bearing in mind their differences and taking into account the specific character of medicine. No historically influential position in ethics is by itself adequate to be applied to reproductive decisions. Thus, this book attempts to offer a pluralistic approach to biomedical research and medical practice. One usually claims that there are some basic principles (non-maleficence, beneficence, confidentiality, autonomy, and justice) which constitute the foundations of bioethics and medical ethics. Yet these principles conflict with each other and one needs some criteria to solve these conflicts and to specify the scope of application of these principles. Exploring miscellaneous ethical approaches as introduced to biomedicine, particularly to reproductive genetics, the book shall elucidate their different assumptions concerning human nature and the relations between healthcare providers, recipients, and other affected parties (e.g. progeny, relatives, other patients, society). The book attempts to answer the question of whether the tension between these ethical doctrines generates conflict in the field of biomedicine or if these competing approaches could in some way complement each other. In this respect, lecturers and researchers in bioethics would be interested in this reading this book.
ISBN:
9783319606835
Series:
Philosophy and medicine, volume 128

Philosophy and medicine ; v. 128.
Physical Description:
xvii, 257 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Part I: Moral theories applied to biomedicine -- Ethical theory and moral intuitions in biomedical decision-making / Robert Audi -- Do our moral judgements need to be guided by principles? / Roberto Andorno -- The moral philosophy of genetic counseling: principles, virtues and utility reconsidered / Marta Soniewicka -- A bioethic of communion: beyond care and the four principles with regard to reproduction / Thaddeus Metz -- parents, special obligations and reproductive genetics / Wojciech Lewandowski -- Moral virtue and the principles of practical reason / Adriana Warmbier -- Context counts -- Bioethics in the age of globalization / Aeddan Shaw -- Conscientious objection of health care workers in the context of genetic testing / Jakub Pawlikowski -- Are there unresolvable dilemmas in bioethics? / Barbara Chyrowicz -- Part II: The moral, legal and social challenges of reproductive genetics -- Reproductive and therapeutic cloning / Henning Rosenau -- Germline gene therapy in the era of precise genome editing: How far should we go? / Peter Sýkora -- Gene editing in human embryos / Iñigo De Miguel Beriain and Ana María Marcos del Cano -- Geneticization and bioethics: Ethical dilemmas in genetic counselling / Ewa Baum and Jan Domaradzki -- Technical and ethical limits in prenatal and preimplantation genetic diagnosis / Malgorzata Karbarz -- From informed choice to distributed decision-making: Ethnographic tales from a study on prenatal testing in Denmark / Nete Schwennesen -- Legal and cross-cultural issues regarding the termination of pregnancy: African perspective / Sylvester C. Chima.
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