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The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine

The Ethics of Screening in Health Care and Medicine

Christian Munthe / Niklas Juth

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2011
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Salud pública y medicina preventiva
ISBN:
9789400720442

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AcknowledgementsChapter 1: Introduction 1.1 The Wilson and Jungner Criteria 1.2 Point and Plan 1.3 The Concept of ScreeningChapter 2: Why Screening? 2.1 Screening, Treatment and Prevention: Preliminary Remarks 2.2 Health: Life and Well-being 2.2.1 Health and Counselling 2.2.2 The Good of People and of the Population 2.3 Autonomy2.3.1 Respecting and Promoting Autonomy2.3.2 Promoting Autonomy through Screening 2.4 Justice 2.5 SummaryChapter 3: Screening - What, When and Whom? 3.1 Diseases and Groups3.1.1 Prenatal Screening3.1.2 Neonatal Screening 3.1.2.1 Reasons for Screening in the Neonatal Period 3.1.2.2 Neonatal Screening and Parental Informed Consent 3.1.2.3 Expanding Neonatal Screening - How Far?3.1.3 Child and Adolescent Screening 3.1.3.1 Stigmatisation 3.1.3.2 The Child as Decision Maker3.1.4 Adult Screening3.2 Testing and Analysis3.2.1 Safety3.2.2 Validity3.2.3 Predictive Value3.3 Treatments3.3.1 Abortion as Treatment3.3.2 Counselling as Treatment 3.4 SummaryChapter 4: Screening - How?4.1 Informed Consent4.2 Counselling4.2.1 Genetic Counselling as a Template4.2.2 Expansion: Shared Decision Making4.3 Funding and Participation 4.4 SummaryChapter 5: Case Studies5.1 Non-Invasive Prenatal Diagnosis5.2 Neonatal Screening for Fragile X5.3 Mammography Screening5.4 PSA Screening for Prostate CancerChapter 6: Serving Society or Serving the Patient?6.1 Summary of the Analysis So far6.2 The Public Health - Health Care Tension Area6.3 The Relevance of a Social Science Perspective6.4 An Institutional Approach to health-related Ethics: A Sketch6.5 Applying the Institutional Approach: Three Cases6.5.1 Institutions, Functions and Ethics: Reproductive Care vs. Communicable Disease 6.5.2 Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: The Limits of Context Relativity6.5.3 Screening and Justice: The Case Against Allocating Health Care Resources to Screening6.6 Revisiting the Wilson and Jungner Criteria for Screening 6.7 Closing

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