Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis

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Preface.- 1 Ethical Dilemmas Due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics. An interdisciplinary, European study (EDIG, 2005-2008).- 2 Managing complex psychoanalytic research projects applying mapping techniques – using the example of the EDIG study.- 3 Distress and Ethical Dilemmas due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics – some empirical results.- 4 Reconstruction of pregnant women’s subjective attitudes towards prenatal diagnostics – a qualitative analysis of open questions.- 5 Prenatal testing: women’s experiences in case of a conspicuous test result.- 6 Caring for women during prenatal diagnosis: personal perspectives from the United Kingdom.- 7 Cooperation is rewarding if the boundary conditions fit: interdisciplinary cooperation in the context of prenatal diagnostics. 8 Prenatal genetic counselling: reflections on drawing policy conclusions from empirical findings.- 9 Taking risk in striving for certainty. Discrepancies in the moral deliberations of counsellors and pregnant women undergoing PND.- 10 Ethical thoughts on counselling and accompanying women and couples before, during and after prenatal diagnosis.- 11 Client, Patient, Subject; whom should we treat? On the significance of the unconscious in medical care and counselling.- 12 Decision to know and decision to act.- 13 Moral decision-making, narratives and genetic diagnostics.- 14 Prenatal diagnostics and ethical dilemmas in a mother having a child with Down syndrome.- 15 Is there one way of looking at ethical dilemmas in different cultures?- Index