..., and other members as necessary, including patients themselves. These committees may sometimes also serve as reviewing bodies for the purposes of institutional or ethical review board presubmission review for research proposals or clinical trials. [email protected] 7 03 2017 18 04...

... subservient to any clinical criteria. Paternity balancing raises similar ethical issues as reduction with gender preferences, but may increase patient autonomy and mainstream acceptance of stable, gay families. We have described the above extensively elsewhere, and it will not be repeated further here [ 6...

...John C. Fletcher This article reviews the evolution of ethical problems in the first generation of experimental fetal therapy and the prevailing approaches to them. The problems include: review of risks/benefits, case selection, informed consent, twin pregnancies, and refusal of proven fetal...

...Andrew F. Shorr Proponents of human fetal tissue research argue that this endeavor is morally separate from abortion. They claim that one’s views about the morality of abortion should not effect decisions about the ethics of fetal tissue research and transplantation efforts. In lifting the ban...

...Frank A. Chervenak; Laurence B. McCullough The authors provide an ethical account of the fetus as patient and identify the implications of that account for directive versus nondirective counseling for fetal benefit. They argue that such an account cannot be grounded in the independent moral status...

... are abortion, selective conception or remaining childless. Commitments to other family members or to oneself can provide other, morally or prudentially compelling reasons to elect genetic testing and selective abortion in these circumstances. Reproductive genetic technology Ethics Parenting Care ©...

...Daniel Skupski; Frank A. Chervenak; Laurence McCullough Objective: To present an ethically justified decision-making pathway to use in the evaluation and treatment of pregnant women whose fetuses have twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). Methods: The ethical principles of beneficence, autonomy...

... information and in a setting of acute emotional distress. 14 09 2004 2 05 2005 17 1 2007 Heart abnormality Counselling Ethics Fetal Diagn Ther 2007;22:233 237 DOI: 10.1159/000098725 Received: September 14, 2004 Accepted after revision: May 2, 2005 Published online: January 17, 2007...

...Søren Holm Stem cell transplantation requires a source of stem cells. The potential use of human embryonic stem cells for research and therapy has created major ethical and political debates in Europe. The first section of this paper gives an overview of the official regulatory responses...

..., reflected in the work of the President’s Council on Bioethics, about a possible ban on cloning-for-biomedical research. The author concludes that ethical controversy will probably persist about both types of policy, and that the policy stalemate will probably also continue, because of fundamental...

...Frank A. Chervenak; Laurence B. McCullough The authors provide an account of their 20-year-old history of collaborative research and publication at Cornell University on ethics in fetal diagnosis and therapy. This research first developed and applied a conceptual framework for ethics in maternal...

... (n = 42). Conclusions: In a highly specialized center, professionals had positive opinions on feticide, expecting it would avoid fetal or neonatal agony and pain. 27 01 2002 9 04 2002 17 2 2003 Termination of pregnancy Fetal pain Neonate Third trimester Abortion Ethics...