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1010810
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b765180
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Louhiala, Pekka.
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| Title & Author
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Preventing intellectual disability : : ethical and clinical issues /\ Pekka Louhiala.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2004.
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1 online resource (vii, 174 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0511062583
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: 0511071043
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: 0511121458
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: 0521533716
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: 0521826330
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: 1280161450
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: 9780511062582
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: 9780511071041
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: 9780511121456
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: 9780521533713
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: 9780521826334
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: 9781280161452
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0521533716
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0521826330
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.
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| Contents
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Case 1 -- Case 2 -- Case 3 -- Case 4 -- 2 On the definition of intellectual disability -- Intelligence and intellectual disability -- Metaphors of intelligence -- Measuring intelligence -- The definition of the American Academy of Mental Retardation -- Intellectual disability and health -- Boorse's biostatistical theory of health -- Nordenfelt's welfare theory of health -- Concluding remarks -- 3 Epidemiology of intellectual disability -- Research strategies in the epidemiology of intellectual disability -- Cohort studies -- Cross-sectional studies -- Case-control studies -- Prevalence of intellectual disability -- Causes of intellectual disability -- Trends in the epidemiology of intellectual disability -- 4 Prevention of intellectual disability: general issues -- Levels of prevention -- Why should intellectual disability be prevented? -- Attitudes towards intellectual disability -- Labelling -- General strategies for the prevention of intellectual disability -- Ethical problems in the prevention of intellectual disability: introduction -- Preconception causes -- Prenatal causes -- Perinatal causes -- Postnatal causes -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Prenatal diagnosis and screening -- History -- Methods -- Indications -- Consent for prenatal diagnosis -- The reproductive autonomy model -- Response to a request -- Reassurance -- Who controls prenatal diagnosis? -- The public health model -- Impact on public health -- Economic argument -- 'Medical view' argument -- Additional critical views -- Slippery slope -- Prenatal diagnosis and eugenics -- Impact on the disabled -- Concluding remarks -- 6 Genetic counselling -- Goals -- When is genetic counselling successful? -- Directive or non-directive counselling? -- What is good genetic counselling? -- Geneticisation -- Behind geneticisation -- Consequences of geneticisation -- Concluding remarks -- 7 Why should intellectual disability be prevented? -- Eugenic argument -- Foetal-wastage argument -- Family burden argument -- Parental autonomy -- Sex selection -- A duty to abort? -- Societal burden argument -- Costbenefit analyses -- Examples of adverse social effects -- Incommensurability -- Quality of life of persons with intellectual disability -- What is quality of life? -- Assessing quality of life -- Quality of life and intellectual disability -- Concluding remarks -- 8 Moral status and intellectual disability -- What is moral status? -- Criteria for moral status -- Life -- Sentience -- Personhood -- Relationships and moral status -- A multi-criterial approach to moral status -- Moral status before birth -- Embryos and young foetuses -- Older foetuses -- Moral status after birth -- Newborns and young infants -- Children and adults with intellectual disability -- Concluding remarks -- 9 The ethics of prevention in pract.
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| Abstract
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"This is the first book that covers comprehensively the difficult ethical issues involved in prevention of intellectual disability (learning disability, mental retardation). These issues are discussed both practically and theoretically in the light of four case examples drawn from real life."--Jacket.
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Genetic counseling-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Genetic screening-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Intellectual disability-- Genetic aspects.
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Intellectual disability-- Prevention-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Learning disabilities-- Genetic aspects.
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Learning disabilities-- Prevention-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medical ethics.
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Aspect génétique.
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Aspect moral.
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Counseling génétique.
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Dépistage génétique.
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Genetic counseling-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Genetic screening-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Handicap intellectuel.
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Intellectual disability-- Genetic aspects.
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Learning disabilities-- Genetic aspects.
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Medical ethics.
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Prévention.
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PSYCHOLOGY-- Mental Illness.
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Trouble d'apprentissage.
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Intellectual Disability-- prevention control.
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Genetic Counseling-- ethics.
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Genetic Testing-- ethics.
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Learning Disabilities-- prevention control.
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Philosophy, Medical.
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| Dewey Classification
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616.85/8805
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| LC Classification
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RC570.L676 2004eb
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| NLM classification
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2004 B-283
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WM 300L887p 2004
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