Genetic Counseling: Ethical Challenges and Consequences

Genetic counseling is fairly new. The fact that the field is an accepted professional enterprise in universities, clinics, and hospitals throughout the United States is remarkable. The contributors argue that genetics and medicine rest on beliefs widely held in American society. Scientific progress is good, and highly sophisticated technologies are appropriate means to solving medical problems. The better understanding they gain about the nature and evolution of disease, the more prepared clinicians will be to treat and prevent future occurrence of disease. A belief that medicine, including genetic medicine, is clear, factually based, and objective undergirds the strategies and norms of genetic counseling. This collection of original papers explores the history, values, and norms of that process, with focus on the value of non-directiveness in counseling practice. The contributors’ examination of genetic counseling issues serves as a foundation from which to address the ethical, legal, and policy considerations of clinical genetics.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

LeRoy, Bonnie S.

Bartels, Dianne M.

Caplan, Arthur L.

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." ―Health and Canadian SocietyInsightful and thought-provoking.... As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly... we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." ―The Washington PostCaplan’s views are important and instructive.... [This] book represents some of his best work." ―New England Journal of MedicineCaplan’s [book] is thought provoking, insightful, and well argued. I recommend it highly."―The Journal of the American Medical Association... a generously illustrated discourse on method in medical and practical ethics." ―EthicsA member of the President’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform examines some of the most controversial biomedical issues of our time.

If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?: And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care (Medical Ethics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Indiana University Press

"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." —Health and Canadian Society
"Insightful and thought-provoking.... As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly... we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." —The Washington Post
"Caplan’s views are important and instructive.... [This] book represents some of his best work." —New England Journal of Medicine
"Caplan’s [book] is thought provoking, insightful, and well argued. I recommend it highly."Â —The Journal of the American Medical Association
"... a generously illustrated discourse on method in medical and practical ethics." —Ethics
A member of the President’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform examines some of the most controversial biomedical issues of our time.

Medical Books

Medicine

"... this book is though-provoking, bringing a scientist’s reason and a moralist’s outrage to bear on a subject that’s largely escaped attention." —Wired
"Caplan’s choice of topics is broad and his opinions challenging.... This volume will interest the general public. It is a good survey of a broad range of ethical issues, as seen by one prominent bioethicist who has thought much about the subject. Caplan’s well-merited reputation as a commentator and interpreter between the scholarly and the public arena is reaffirmed in this book." —The Washington Post
"Arthur Caplan—with assiduous effort, unflagging energy, encyclopedic knowledge, and imposing talent—has become America’s most visible commentator on bioethics." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Arthur Caplan is perhaps the most quoted bioethicist in the US and this new collection of essays illustrates why." —Nature Medicine
"... an important book of essays addressing the most problematic and persistent questions in the realm of contemporary bioethics. He offers a highly readable text balancing irony and incisive analysis with a palpable sense of moral urgency as he confronts a variety of subjects." —Curtis W. Hart, BCC
"Careful consideration of some of the knottier bioethical problems of our times, by the director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, who fears that cynicism and mistrust have eroded our ability to see ourselves as our brothers’ keepers." —Kirkus Reviews
"Caplan’s particular skill is an ability to identify, analyze, and explain the extremely complex moral questions that grow out of changes in health care, science, and medicine." —The New York Times Magazine
"An important critical voice for American medicine." —The New England Journal of Medicine
"... a useful introduction to a variety of bioethical issues." —Library Journal
In this impassioned book, Arthur L. Caplan, America’s leading bioethicist, calls for an end to cynicism and mistrust in our approach to resolving health care issues. He brings this vision to discussions of some of the most exciting issues at the frontiers of medical ethics today—including doctor-assisted suicide, gene therapy, and the headline-grabbing case of Dolly the sheep and the possibility that human beings might one day be cloned.

Am I My Brother's Keeper?: The Ethical Frontiers of Biomedicine (Medical Ethics)

Religion & Spirituality

This topical book is designed to make you think. The majority of issues examined in the text consist of moral dilemmas that could happen to anyone. Each chapter contains essays that are brimming with opinions, and every essay presents an argument(s) in support of those views. Honing your ethical skills by thinking critically about these essays will help you reflect more clearly about the moral challenges and ethical puzzles which will inevitably arise in your life.

Moral Matters: Ethical Issues in Medicine and the Life Sciences

wiley

This book explores the ethical challenges posed at the cutting edge of biomedical science and health care. Art Caplan, one of the nation's leading theorists, clearly outlines the newest technologies and developments in medical research, then thoughtfully sorts through the potential ethical, legal, and social repercussions. He examines a huge number of the most current and controversial subjects--abortion, cloning, managed care, needle exchange programs to prevent the transmission of HIV, and much more. Art Caplan makes his mark as one of today's leading ethicists with this powerful exploration of the moral dilemmas humanity must face in the advancement of biomedical science and health care. After outlining the newest technologies and developments in medical research, he thoughtfully sorts through the potential ethical, legal, and social repercussions of cloning, abortion, assisted suicide, and needle exchange programs. No other book combines such probing analytical clarity.

Due Consideration: Controversy in the Age of Medical Miracles

Which Babies Shall Live?: Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)

The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten tion of the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful interest groups. For the most part, the debate has been cast in the narrowest possible terms: "discrimination against the handicapped"; "physician authority"; "family autonomy." We believe that something much more profound is happening: the debate over the care of sick and dying babies appears to be both a manifestation of great changes in our feelings about infants, children, and families, and a reflection of deep and abiding attitudes toward the newborn, the handi capped, and perhaps other humans who are "less than" nor mal, rational adults. How could we cast some light on those feelings and attitudes that seemed to determine silently the course of the public debate? We chose to enlist the humanities-the dis players and critics of our cultural forms. Rather than closing down the public discussion, we wanted to open it up, to illuminate it with the light of history, religion, philosophy, literature, jurisprudence, and humanistically oriented sociol ogy. This book is a first effort to place the hotly contested Baby Doe debate into a broader cultural context.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Murray, Thomas H.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Humana

Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out stripped our morality. Yet, as the essays in this volume make clear, that is not an accurate assessment of the situ ation. Medical technology has not overwhelmed our moral ity. It would be more accurate to say that our society has not yet achieved consensus about the complex ethical iss ues that arise when medicine tries to assist those who seek its services in order to reproduce. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of ethical opinion about what we ought to do with respect to the use of surrogate mothers, in vitro fertil ization, embryo transfer, artificial insemination, or fertil ity drugs. Nor is it entirely accurate to describe assisted repro duction as technology. The term "technology" carries with it connotations of machines buzzing and technicians scurrying about trying to control a vast array of equip ment. Yet, most of the methods used to assist reproduc tion that are discussed in this volume do not involve exotic technologies or complicated hardware. It is technique, more than technology, that dominates the field of assisted reproduction. Efforts to help the infertile by means of the manipu lation of human reproductive materials and organs date 1 2 Caplan back at least to Biblical times. Human beings have en gaged in all manner of sexual practices and manipulations in attempts to achieve reproduction when nature has balked at allowing life to begin.

Beyond Baby M: Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)

Priester, Reinhard

Vawter, Dorothy E.

Science & Math

In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents refused to consent to surgery or intravenous feeding. The hospital unsuccessfully sought a court order to force treatment, and appeals to higher courts also failed. The child, identified as Baby Doe by the news media, subsequently died. The events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by the Reagan administration, the courts, and Congress that culminated in a federal policy that makes failure to treat newborns with disabilities a form of child neglect. This book centers on the public policy aspects of withholding treatment from critically ill newborns who are disabled. Specifically, it deals with why the policy was enacted and what impact it has had on health care workers, families, and infants. Some of the contributors to this book spearheaded the early debate on withholding treatment. Anthony Shaw's New York Times Magazine article in 1972 was the first to address these issues in the popular press. The following year, he published a related article in the New England Journal of Medicine. Also appearing in this same issue of NEJM, was the pathbreaking study, coauthored by A. G. M. Campbell, on withholding treatment in the special care nursery at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Each of these articles promoted much public and professional discussion.

Compelled Compassion: Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)

BLANK, Robert H.

Merrick, Janna C.

In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The importance of these issues to contemporary bioethical disputes-particularly in the thorny areas of medical genetics, human experimentation, and euthanasia-are explored in detail and with sensitivity.

When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)

Humana Press

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Genetic Counseling: Ethical Challenges and Consequences

If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?: And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care (Medical Ethics)

If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?: And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care (Medical Ethics)

Am I My Brother's Keeper?: The Ethical Frontiers of Biomedicine (Medical Ethics)

Moral Matters: Ethical Issues in Medicine and the Life Sciences

Due Consideration: Controversy in the Age of Medical Miracles

Which Babies Shall Live?: Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)

Beyond Baby M: Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)

Compelled Compassion: Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)

When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust (Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society)