Using prenatal tests to prevent the birth of babies with disabilities seems to be self‐evidently
good to many people. Even if the testing will not help bring a healthy baby to term this time, it …

When I first thought to put togeth-er a project to examine the disability rights critique of
prenatal genetic testing, Eric Juengst was chief of the Eth-ical, Social, and Legal Implications …

In 1989, Canadian philosopher Susan Wendell characterized the way bioethics literature
discusses disability as follows:" Under what conditions is it morally permissible/right to kill/let …

By now everyone is familiar with the recent accomplishments of the Human Genome Project.
Accomplished in ten, rather than the initially expected fifteen, years, the human genome has …

Objective To examine the informed consent process when trained language interpreters are
unavailable. Background Ensuring sufficient patient understanding for informed consent is …

In many countries pregnant women deemed to be at increased risk for fetal anomaly
following a screening test may attend a genetic counseling session to receive information …

Carrier testing of adults provides information about the risk of passing a genetic mutation to
your children, leading to reproductive (and some say, eugenic) decisions. Excessive carrier …

Debates about the core values of genetic counselling have drawn on various conceptions of
'non-directiveness' as a point of reference throughout the second half of the twentieth …

Este artigo defende o argumento de que a popularização do aborto seletivo com as
modernas técnicas de diagnóstico pré-natal representa um risco à integridade moral dos …

Discussions of conflict of interest (COI) in the university have tended to focus on financial
interests in the context of medical research; much less attention has been given to COI in …