Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis

Joann Paley Galst, PhD, New York, NY, USA Marion S. Verp, MD, Evanston, IL, USA.

lt;p>CONTENTS

PART I: MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE

1 Prenatal Genetic Screening and Diagnostic Testing

Marion S. Verp

2 Preimplantation Genetic Screening and Diagnostic Testing

Joe Leigh Simpson

3 Medical Reasons for Pregnancy Interruption: Chromosomal and Genetic Abnormalities

Jeffrey S. Dungan

4 Medical Reasons for Pregnancy Interruption: Structural Abnormalities

Lucas Otaño, César H. Meller, and Horacio A. Aiello

5 Medical Reasons or Pregnancy Interruption: Fetal Reduction

Mark I. Evans, Stephanie Andriole, Shara M. Evans, and David W. Britt

6 Fetal Pain

Stuart W. G. Derbyshire

7 Giving Bad and Ambiguous News

Joan G. Lalor

PART II: THE LEGAL LANDSCAPE

8 Legal Issues in Prenatal and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

Valerie Gutmann Koch

PART III: ALTERNATIVE SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES

9 Ethical Issues

Mary B. Mahowald

10 Religious Traditions

Rebecca Rae Anderson

11 Disability Perspectives

David Wasserman

12 Feminist Perspectives on Prenatal and Preimplantation Diagnosis

Deborah Blizzard

PART IV: PSYCHOSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE

13 Critical Aspects of Decision-Making and Grieving After Diagnosis of Fetal Anomaly

Judith L. M. McCoyd

14 Helping Patients Cope with Their Decisions

Joann Paley Galst

15 A Burden of Choice-The Ripple Effect: Parents' Grief and the Role of Family and Friends

Julie Bindeman

16 Postscript: A Patient's Perspective

Katherine Burns