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Title Quality of life and human difference : genetic testing, health care, and disability / edited by David Wasserman, Robert Wachbroit, Jerome Bickenbach
Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description xi, 273 pages; 23 cm
Series Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy
Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy.
Contents Introduction / David Wasserman, Jerome Bickenbach and Robert Wachbroit -- 1. Assessing quality of life : clinical versus health policy uses / Robert Wachbroit -- 2. Predicting genetic disability while commodifying health / Anita Silvers -- 3. Preventing genetically transmitted disabilities while respecting persons with disabilities / Dan W. Brock -- 4. Disability, ideology, and quality of life : a bias in biomedical ethics / Ron Amundson -- 5. Values for health states in QALYs and DALYs : desirability versus well-being and worth / Erik Nord -- 6. Preventing the existence of people with disabilities / Jeff McMahan -- 7. Where is the sin in synecdoche? : prenatal testing and the parent-child relationship / Adrienne Asch and David Wasserman -- 8. The social context of individual choice / Tom Shakespeare -- 9. Disability and health systems assessment / Jerome Bickenbach
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Prenatal diagnosis -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Prenatal diagnosis -- Social aspects.
Fetus -- Abnormalities -- Diagnosis.
Genetic screening -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Genetic screening -- Social aspects.
Medical ethics.
Quality of life.
Author Bickenbach, Jerome Edmund.
Wasserman, David T.
Wachbroit, Robert Samuel.
LC no. 2004062839
ISBN 0521832012
0521539714
0521832012 :
9780521832014
0521539714 :
9780521539715