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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154729403321

Titolo

Biomedical ethics and fetal therapy / / edited by Carl Nimrod and Glenn Griener ; essays by Carl Nimrod ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, c1988

ISBN

9786613810601

9781282232860

128223286X

9780889206656

0889206651

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (137 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NimrodCarl

GrienerGlenn

Disciplina

618.32059

Soggetti

Fetus - Abnormalities - Treatment - Moral and ethical aspects

Fetus - Research - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The Biomedical Ethics and Fetal Therapy Conference, held at the University of Calgary in October, 1984"--Foreword.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Fetal therapy, state of the art / Carl Nimrod ... [et al.] -- Evaluation of fetal therapy / Ruth Milner -- Ethical issues in fetal therapy research / Sydney Segal -- Fetal diagnosis and the impact of molecular genetics / David Hoar -- Fetal therapy, ethical considerations / David J. Roy -- Management of pregnancies with suspected fetal anomalies / David Manchester ... [et al.] -- Fetal surgery / Edward W. Keyserlingk -- Are fetuses becoming children? / William Ruddick.

Sommario/riassunto

""Over the last two decades, medical researchers have become more comfortable wit the idea that serious attention must be given to ethical issues when the tests of new technologies are being designed. They have come to see that experimental trials must meet certain standards, not only of scientific rigour, but also of moral acceptability."" (Introduction)     Presented by an international group of experts, the eight essays included in this volume evaluate the new technologies in fetal care and also wrestle with the new problems, often moral ones,



that have accompanied techonological a