For Your Interest? The Ethical Acceptability of Using Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing to Test 'Purely for Information'

Bioethics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 19-25

  Deans, Zuzana ^a   Clarke, Angus J ^b   Newson, Ainsley J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Ethics; Genetic testing; Non invasive prenatal testing; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD; CONFLICT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INFORMATION SEEKING; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; ONSET AGE; PARENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEX DETERMINATION; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; DECISION MAKING; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETIC TESTING; GENOME, HUMAN; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MORALS; MOTIVATION; PARENTS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEX DETERMINATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84918587012     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12125     Document Type: Article

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