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Medical sociology

The Ethics of Consent and Choice in Prenatal Screening - Head Work

by Author(s): Eleanor Milligan

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Increasingly, notions of individual autonomy, personal “choice” and preference have become woven into our reproductive expectations. With respect to prenatal screening, the choices sought, offered or denied are shaped and interpreted through a range of social, personal, institutional and philosophical lenses. While prenatal screening seeks to promote parental choice and early intervention, for the most part, the genetic anomalies commonly targeted are inherently “unfixable.” Frequently, the only further intervention on offer is selective termination. Hence, the practice of prenatal screening raises complex ethical questions, forcing judgement on the desirability or undesirability of certain traits in our future offspring. This book explores the numerous factors that shape how such ethical choices are interpreted from the perspective of individual mothers and health care providers, and considers the impact of these factors on personal autonomy and consent to prenatal screening.

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Author Biography

Eleanor Milligan is a Clinical Ethicist and Chair of Human Research Ethics Committee at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane and Academic Lead in Medical Ethics at Griffith University School of Medicine. She brings a broad multidisciplinary background in bioscience (BSc), education (GradDipEd) and philosophy (BA Hons and PhD) to these roles. Some of her recent publications include: Confessions: Confounding Narrative and Ethics (edited by E. Milligan and E. J. Woodley, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010); “Creative, Expressive Encounters in Health Ethics Education: Teaching Ethics as Relational Engagement” (E. Milligan and E. J. Woodley, in Teaching and Learning in Medicine, Volume 21, Issue 2, pp. 131–139, 2009); and “The Ethics of Prenatal and Genetic Screening” in Towards Humane Technologies: Biotechnology, New Media and Ethics (edited by N. Sunderland, P. Isaacs, P. Graham and B. McKenna; Sense Publishers, 2008).

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