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Medizinische Prognosen Im Horizont Eigener Lebensfuhrung

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English summary: The diagnostic technology in modern medicine is providing increasingly detailed information on the potential progress of health or of a disease. Those concerned are confronted with the task of anticipating the significance of the probability of occurrence in each case for the potential way of living their own lives and to make concrete decisions regarding examinations or treatment in each individual case. Using prenatal diagnosis as an example, Gabriela Brahier studies how the women concerned reach their decision based on the test. Based on a philosophically and socially informed theology and a qualitative case study, the author shows that the decisions are made on the basis of synthesizing strategies which are geared towards the idea of authenticity, and that this has far-reaching consequences for the concept of personal autonomy and for genetic counseling as well.


German description: Die Diagnosetechniken der modernen Medizin geben immer detaillierter Auskunft uber mogliche zukunftige Gesundheits- bzw. Krankheitsverlaufe. Betroffene stehen derweil vor der Aufgabe, die Bedeutung der jeweiligen Eintrittswahrscheinlichkeiten fur die subjektiven Lebensperspektiven zu antizipieren und konkrete Untersuchungs- oder Behandlungsentscheidungen zu fallen. Gabriela Brahier untersucht am Beispiel der Pranataldiagnostik, wie betroffene Frauen zu ihrer individuellen Testentscheidung gelangen. Auf der Grundlage einer philosophisch und sozialwissenschaftlich informierten Theologie sowie einer qualitativen Interviewstudie zeigt die Autorin, dass die Entscheidungen aufgrund von authentizitatsgeleiteten Wertsynthesen getroffen werden, was zu weitreichenden Konsequenzen fur das Verstandnis personaler Autonomie wie fur die Praxis genetischer Beratung fuhrt.

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ISBN: 9783161508103
Publication date: 17th January 2012
Author: Kai von Lewinski
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 282 pages
Genres: Social groups: religious groups and communities
Theology
Christianity