Genetics in Human Reproduction

Part 1 Medical and scientific view: clinical experience with PID and ICSI, Ingeborg Liebaers; the various micromanipulative procedures - state of the art, chances and risks, Dieter Meschede and Jurgen Horst; the relations between ICSI and genetic diagnosis from an ethical point of view, Barbara Maier; modification of IVF application and access to IVF services by PID?, Brian Lieberman; examples for possible PID indications - scientific background and reflections on effects, Ulrike A. Mau; should there be a uniform list of genetic diseases allowing access to PID?, Hansjakob Muller; nuclear transplantation - medical and ethical aspects, Gerd Richter and Matthew D. Bacchetta. Part 2 Personal interests and moral implications: ethics of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Guido de Wert; preimplantation diagnosis - a reflection in light of a personalist ethics, Paul Schotsmans; ethical aspects of germline gene therapy, Alex Mauron; "quality control" in reproduction - what can it mean, what should it mean?, Dieter Birnbacher; does gene therapy have ethically problematic effects on identity?, Ingmar Persson. Part 3 Moral rights and duties: does PID solve the moral problems of prenatal diagnosis? a rights analysis, Deryck Aeyleveld; ethics of research on human embryos, Reiner Wimper; categorical arguments - pro life versus pro choice?, Maureen Junker-Kenny; selection through prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis, Hille Haker. Part 4 Social concepts and moral implications: eugenics comes back with medically assisted procreation, Bernard Sele and Jacques Testart; germline gene "therapy" - public opinions with regard to eugenics, Sigrid Graumann; predictive genetic medicine - a new concept of disease, Lene Koch; animal models - an anthropologist considers Dolly, Sarah Franklin; issues surrounding preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy, Alex Quintanilha; beside the point - reflections on passivity, Paul J.M. van Tongeren. Part 5 Choices and decision making: what claims can be based on the desire for a healthy child? towards an ethics of "informed desires", Walter Lesch; the European alliance of genetic support groups, Ysbrand Poortman; some reflections on the use of the term "prevention" in reproductive medicine, Elisabeth Hildt; preimplantation diagnosis - the implications for genetic counselling, Ruth Chadwick. Part 6 Health care, justice and regulation: legal regulations concerning preimplantation diagnosis, Jennifer Gunning; reproductive technology and the slippery slope argument - a message in blood, Tony McGleenan; measuring the benefits of IVF, Emma McIntosh and Mandy Ryan; justice and preimplantation diagnosis, Joke de Witte; the role of ethics codes in medicine - how can they be helpful in making decisions?, Stella Reiter-Theil.