A 'healthy baby
The double imperative of preimplantation genetic diagnosis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4218319 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Ehrich (King's College London), Clare Williams (0000-0001-6315-5534, King's College London) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-56 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1363459309347477 |
| PMID | 20051429 |
| OpenAlex | W2124489512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 38 |
This article reports from a study exploring the social processes, meanings and institutions that frame and produce 'ethical problems' and clinical dilemmas for practitioners, scientists and others working in the specialty of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). A major topic in the data was that, in contrast to IVF, the aim of PGD is to transfer to the woman's womb only those embryos likely to be unaffected by serious genetic disorders; that is, to produce 'healthy babies'. Staff described the complex processes through which embryos in each treatment cycle must meet a double imperative: they must be judged viable by embryologists and 'unaffected' by geneticists. In this article, we focus on some of the ethical, social and occupational issues for staff ensuing from PGD's double imperative
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis · Specialty · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Genetics, Disease, and Reproduction
Mapping methodological ecosystems in the journal Health (1997–2025)
Dealing with treatment and transfer requests
Beyond the Geneticization Thesis
Uncertainties, risks, or hope? Managing embryos in a multidisciplinary team of PGT
Un-Knowing the Embryo
Sous le régime de l'exception
Embryo futures and stem cell research
Science in action
The making of the unborn patient
Situational Analysis
Beyond Caring
Critical Bioethics
Qualitative data analysis for applied policy research
What can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Study of Ethics? Theoretical, Empirical and Substantive Considerations
'Drawing the line' in prenatal screening and testing
The Contributions of Sociology to Medical Ethics
Intimate Adversaries
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
Too many choices? Hospital and community staff reflect on the future of prenatal screening
Is nondirectiveness possible within the context of antenatal screening and testing
What is the preimplantation embryo
Women as moral pioneers? Experiences of first trimester antenatal screening
Framing the fetus in medical work
Facilitating choice, framing choice
Social welfare, genetic welfare? Boundary-work in the IVF/PGD clinic
Techno-economic Networks and Irreversibility
Born and Made
The Cyborg Embryo
Practitioners' Views about Equity within Prenatal Services
The embryo as moral work object
Choosing embryos
Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory
Dilemmas in fetal medicine
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |