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Группа авторов. Knowing One's Medical Fate in Advance
Knowing One’s. Medical Fate in Advance
Contents
Introduction
Evolving Therapy and Prognosis in HIV – How Knowing One’s Medical Fate in Advance Can Change Dramatically
Prognosis and Advances in Treatment
Treatment Goals, Cautious Prognosis, and Perceptions
Perception Models
‘Wunderbar’ - ‘Wonderful’
Continuing Developments
‘I Will Survive this Challenge’
Prognosis Outside of Europe
Acknowledgement
Questions and Answers
References
Related to Human Cognition:Is Personalization Feasible and Desirable?
Questions and Answers
References
Ethical Decision-Making on Genetic Diagnosis Facing the Challenges of Knowing One’s Medical Fate in Advance
The ‘Informed Consent’ Model as the Key to Autonomous Decision-Making
Ethical Decision-Making Processes in Women in Conjunction with Prenatal Genetic Testing: an Empirical Study
Muriel
Zoe
Caroline
Autonomous Decision-Making as a Liberal Slant on Shaping One’s Own Future - Consequences for Theory and Practice
Questions and Answers
References
Mastering Familial Genetic Knowledge: Shared or Secret? Issues of Decision-Making in Predictive Genetic Testing
Huntington Again
Methodological Approach
The Story of Mrs Alberta - Our Overview2
Biographical Approach: ‘Revelation’ by Familial Genetic Knowledge and Dissociation from the Parental Generation
Interpretative Phenomenological Approach (IPA) and Emerging Bioethical Issues
Conclusion
Footnotes:
References
Predictive Medicine – Changes in Our View of Ourselves and Others
Introduction
Ambiguities in the Concept of ‘Menschenbild’
Predictive Medicine and the Image of Man - Has Anything Changed?
What Has Changed - From the Viewpoint of Subjective Rationality?
Does Patient Autonomy Imply a Right to Know?
Patient Autonomy as an Ideal
Which Principles Should Guide the Practice of Predictive Medical Information?
Provisional Conclusions
Questions and Answers
References
Current Challenges for the Law: Disclosure Dilemmas in Predictive Medicine
Introduction
Legal Framework in Switzerland. Right to informational self-determination, right to know and right not to know
Implementation on a Statutory Level: Federal Act on Genetic Testing in Humans
Disclosure of Genetic Data: Art. 19 HGTA
Concluding Remarks
Questions and Answers
Footnotes:
References
Fate and Judaism – Philosophical and Clinical Aspects
Introduction: Medical Ethics and Jewish Medical Ethics
Fate and Judaism
A. Philosophical Aspects: The Permission and the Duty to Heal
The Talmudic Source
Four Medieval Commentaries on this Talmudic Source
Rabbi A.Y. Kook’s Interpretation: Synthesis of Classical Sources with the Modern Challenges of Medicine in the 20th century
Conclusions regarding “Knowing One’s Medical Fate in Advance”
B. Clinical Aspects
Abortion
Truth Telling and the Patient-Physician-Relationship
Summary
Questions and Answers
References
Further Reading
Modern Medicine and My Future Life: A Christian-Theological Perspective
Introduction:The Importance of Being Religious
Individual Life and Its Future in a Christian Theological Perspective. Anonymous Fate or Destiny by Divine Providence? The Moirai
The Solon Paradox
Providence
Individual Destiny
Christian Understanding of Personal Future, Death and Afterlife. Two Formative Tensions
Reformation Theology: The Prerogative of Justification (Grace)
Enlightenment: Spiritualisation of Afterlife Conceptions
‘Holistic Humanity’ (‘Der Ganze Mensch’)
Some Consequences for Christian Bioethics of Individual ‘Future Life’ No Affront Against Modern Medical Techniques
Against Naturalism
Against Religious-Metaphysical Escapism
The Freedom of Hope
Predictive Medicine: Challenges to a Modern Christian Ethics of Individual Future Life. Classical Medical Prevention: Example of Breast Cancer
End-of-Life Decisions
The Concept of ‘Rational Suicide’ (‘Bilanzsuizid’)
Regarding Death: Fulfilment, Fragmentariness and Openness
Genetic Testing as a Litmus Test for Christian Ethics of Individual Future Life. The Mythology of Genetic Testing
A Christian Attitude towards Genetic Testing
Genetic Diseases and the Threat to Lose Identity
Predicting My Offspring: Is There a Christian Eugenics?
Questions and Answers
Footnotes:
References
Karma, Contingency, and the ‘Point of No Return’: Predictive Medicine and Buddhist Perspectives
Knowing One’s Medical Fate in Asia?
The ‘Point of No Return’: Its Relevance for Predictive Medicine
Contingency and Karma—or Why Religious Specialists Compete with Medical Specialists in Forecasting ‘Medical Fate’
‘Knowing the Fate’? Tibetan Medical Scriptures on ‘Refusing Treatment’ of Terminally Ill
Predictive Medicine: Some Views of Buddhist Specialists
Questions and Answers
Footnotes:
References
Author Index
Subject Index
