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This book provides a concise yet comprehensive source of current information on Down syndrome. Research workers, scientists, medical graduates and paediatricians will find it an excellent source for reference and review. This book focuses on exciting areas of research on prenatal diagnosis - Down syndrome screening after assisted reproduction techniques, noninvasive techniques, genetic counselling and ethical issues. Whilst aimed primarily at research worker on Down syndrome, we hope that the appeal of this book will extend beyond the narrow confines of academic interest and be of interest to a wider audience, especially parents and relatives of Down syndrome patients.

Down syndrome. --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- 21 trisomy --- Down's syndrome --- Mongolism --- Mongolism (Disease) --- Trisomy 21 --- Human chromosome abnormalities --- Intellectual disability --- Syndromes --- Human chromosome 21 --- Medical genetics

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Prenatal care --- Fetus --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Law, General & Comparative --- Law, Politics & Government --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Foetus --- Unborn child --- Embryology --- Reproduction --- Antenatal care --- Antenatal services --- Pre-natal care --- Pregnant women --- Maternal health services --- Preconception care --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Care

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Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with new facets of a Faustian seduction. Are we „playing God“ more and more, as claimed by critical authors of modernity? Achievements in genetic research produce ethical dilemmas which need to be the subject of reflection and debate in modern societies. Denial of ambivalences that ethical dilemmas arouse constitutes a threat to societies as well as to individuals. The book presents a compilation of some of the results of the interdisciplinary European study “Ethical Dilemmas Due to Prenatal and Genetic Diagnostics” (EDIG), which investigated some of these dilemmas in detail in a field which is particularly challenging: prenatal diagnosis. When results from prenatal diagnosis show fetal abnormalities, women and their partners are confronted with ethical dilemmas regarding: the right to know and the right not to know; decision-making about the remainder of the pregnancy and the desire for a healthy child; responsibility for the unborn child, for its well-being and possible suffering; life and death. This book provides answers from an ethical, psychoanalytical and medical viewpoint.

Genetic counseling. --- Genetic screening -- Case studies. --- Genetic screening. --- Medical ethics. --- Prenatal diagnosis -- Case studies. --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Behavioral Sciences --- Publication Formats --- Diagnostic Techniques, Obstetrical and Gynecological --- Morals --- Human Rights --- Social Control, Formal --- Psychology, Social --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Publication Characteristics --- Diagnosis --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Sociology --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Health Care --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Ethics --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Patient Rights --- Congresses --- Psychology --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Gynecology & Obstetrics --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Medicine. --- Biotechnology. --- Ethics. --- Maternal and child health services. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Biomedicine. --- Biomedicine general. --- Maternal and Child Health. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Obstetrics --- Maternal and infant welfare. --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Psychology, Pathological --- Chemical engineering --- Genetic engineering --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Physicians --- Infant welfare --- Infants --- Maternity welfare --- Child welfare --- Mothers --- Women --- Maternal health services --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Charities, protection, etc. --- Charities --- Health Workforce --- Biomedicine, general.