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Ethical Problems in Teratology *
Author(s) -
OKAMOTO Naomasa,
BABA Kazuo
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
congenital anomalies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-4520
pISSN - 0914-3505
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4520.1986.tb00663.x
Subject(s) - teratology , abortion , genetic counseling , ethical issues , medicine , engineering ethics , congenital malformations , medical ethics , autopsy , in utero , fetus , pregnancy , psychiatry , pathology , biology , genetics , engineering
A symposium on the ethical problems in teratology was held to consider the problems that may occur in the research and therapy of the medical sciences. Selected titles of the symposium were as follows: 1. Some cytogenetical aspects of artificial fertilization. 2. Abortion: Ethical issues and Japanese attitudes. 3. Ethical problems of congenital malformations; “fetal therapy in utero” 4. Ethics in autopsy of human fetuses and newborns with congenital anomalies. 5. Genetic counseling. 6. Logic and ethics of learning (Gakumon). These broad problems were discussed in all their aspects.