Published in 1998, this book is a collected volume of papers from the first conference of the European Network for Biomedical ethics. The main subject of this conference is the ethical assessment of IVF in view of its concrete application as an infertility treatment and the consideration of possible alternatives for use. Twenty years after the introduction and the establishment of this therapy a more concrete evaluation of its medical indications, social conditions and consequences, the psychological consequences for the women involved and the parent-child relationship becomes possible. The legal and ethical evaluation of the reproduction technology as regards for example the legal and moral status of supernumery embyos in cryo-conservation has also to be considered in a European perspective. The ethical evaluation concentrates today on the new evolution that IVF technology takes in relation to the extension of diagnostics possibilities due to genetic research. Little work has been done on the connection between IVF and genetic diagnostics and therapy, so the medical and ethical evaluation of the connecting lines are also included in the book.
Published in 1998, this book is a collected volume of papers from the first conference of the European Network for Biomedical ethics. The main subject of this conference is the ethical assessment of IVF in view of its concrete application as an infertility treatment and the consideration of possible alternatives for use.
Part 1: Introduction
1. Introduction and Development of IVF and its
Ethical Regulation, Robert G. Edwards
2. Two Decades of IVF: A Critical
Appraisal, Lene Koch
3. Interdisciplinary and the Specific Responsibility of
Ethics Towards Science and Technology, Paul van Tongeren
4. Different Ethical
Perspectives in IVF Discussion, Dietmar Mieth Part 2: Infertility
1. A
Personal Account of Infertility, Phil Taylor and Kathie Taylor
2. Different
Kinds of Infertility, Possible Reasons for Infertility, Hans-Rudolf Tinneberg
and Ulrich Gohring
3. Accepting Infertility, Ian D. Cooke
4. Social Aspects
of Infertility, Agneta Sutton
5. Psychosocial Aspects of Infertility and
Treatment, Lone Schmidt
6. Is the Desire for a Child too Strong? Or is There
a Right to a Child of Ones Own?, Walter Lesch
7. To an Ethics of Desire,
Paul van Tongeren Part 3: Indications for in Vitro Fertilisation
1.
Infertility Treatment Without Consideration of Differentiated Indications,
Hans-Rudolf Tinneberg
2. Infertility Propagated to the Next Generation by in
Vitro Fertilisation, Dieter Meschede and Jurgen Horst
3. What Shall We do
With the Unexplained Infertility?, Urban Wiesing
4. Alternative, Non-IVF
Therapies, Aldo Campana and Dilys Walker
5. Ethical Considerations Concerning
Alternatives to IVF Therapies, Monika Stuhlinger Part 4: Counselling in the
Process of Decision-Making
1. Ethical Decision-Making for in Vitro
Fertilisation in a Multicultural Setting, Farhan Yazdani
2. The Process of
Ethical Decision-Making, Hille Haker
3. Counselling Practice, Ian D. Cooke
4.
Ethical Neutrality in Counselling? The Challenge of Infertility, Stella
Reiter-Theil
5. The Illusion of Neutrality in Counselling Practice, Walter
Lesch
6. Genetic Counselling, Ulrike Mau Part 5: IVF-Treatment: Chances and
Risks
1. Success of in Vitro Fertilisation, Brian A. Lieberman
2. Success
Rates in IVF, Urban Weising
3. IVF, its Success Rates and their Ethical
Significance, Alberto Bondolfi
4. Multiple Pregnancy, Brian A. Lieberman
5.
Multifetal Pregnancies: Reduction or Prevention?, Guido de Wert
6. Multifetal
Pregnancies: Considerations in Couples with a Genetic Problem, Ulrike Mau
7.
The Effects of IVF on the Women Involved, Barbara Maier
8. In Vitro
Fertilisation and Freedom of Action, Elisabeth Hildt
9. Freedom Through
Science?, Gunter Virt Part 6: Human Embryos in IVF
1. Human Embryos in
Medical Practice, Ian D. Cooke
2. Are there Inconsistencies in our Ethical
Understanding of the Human Embryo?, Eve-Marie Engels
3. Supernumerary
Embryos: Some Social Issues, Anne McLaren
4. Social Issues Surrounding
Supernumerary Embryos, Carmen Kaminsky
5. The Status of Human Embryos in
Irish Medical Practice, Deirdre Madden
6. The Fate of Supernumerary Embryos:
What do Patients Think about It?, Yvon Englert
7. Putting IVF-Clients Views
on the Fate of Their Embryos into Context, Sigrid Graumann Part 7: The Status
of Human Embryos
1. The Moral Status of Potential Persons, Klaus Steigleder
2. The Moral and Legal Status of the Human Embryo, Deryck Beyleveld
3. The
Legal Status of the Human Embryo, Hans-Georg Koch
4. Legal Regulations in
Europe, Calum MacKellar
5. A Distinct Category? About the Moral Status of
Human Surplus Embryos, Egbert Schroten
6. Research on Human Embryos, Lorna
Leaston Part 8: Connecting Lines Between IVF and Preimplantation Diagnosis
and Gene Therapy
1. Connecting Lines from a Medical Point of View, Hansjakob
Muller
2. The Possible Impact of Preimplantation Diagnosis for Infertile
Couples, Dieter Meschede and Jurgen Horst
3. Legal Regulation of IVF and
Preimplantation Diagnosis in Germany, Stefan Muller
4. Connecting Lines from
an Ethical Point of View, Paul Schotsmans
5. How Tailor-Made do we Want our
Offspring to be?, Paulus Liening Part 9: A Fundamental Approach:
Technicalisation of Reproduction
1. Limits of Reproductive Technology, Brian
A. Lieberman
2. Do Modern Reproductive Technologies Violate Human Dignity?,
Dieter Birnbacher
3. Some Observations on Human Dignity and Human Rights,
Deryck Beyleveld
4. The Essentials of Human Dignity, Walter Lesch
5. Moral
Boundaries of Reproductive Technology. Some Preliminary Remarks, Egbert
Schroten
6. Nature and Technics. Approaching the Underlying Concepts in IVF,
Barbara Maier
7. Can Nature Serve as a Criterium for the Use of Reproductive
Technologies?, Hub Zwart.
Hildt, Elisabeth; Mieth, Dietmar
