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

• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, c1988
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (137 p.)
• Disciplina: 618.32059
• Soggetto topico: Fetus - Abnormalities - Treatment - Moral and ethical aspects; Fetus - Research - Moral and ethical aspects
• Altri autori: NimrodCarl GrienerGlenn
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Biomedical Ethics and Fetal Therapy
• ISBN: 9786613810601; 9781282232860; 128223286X; 9780889206656; 0889206651
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154729403321
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