Wrongful life: some of the problems.

تحلیل ضمان قهری مشاور ژنتیک در رابطه با خطای تشخیص قبل از تولد

Genetic technology in the field of medical science has been one of the great revolutions which it is in progress in molecular and cellular biology and the human genome project. The progress in genetic testing gives people the authority to prevent that certain diseases and also prevent the birth of children with rare genetic disorders. With the advancement of the science, genetic counselors are ...

Wrongful life, wrongful birth, wrongful death, and the right to refuse treatment: can reasonable jurisdictions recognize all but one?

When life is an injury: an economic approach to wrongful life lawsuits.

Can life be an injury? Jurists, theologians, and philosophers have spilled much ink over this question. Wrongful birth and wrongful life lawsuits are frequently debated in courts and academic circles. In broad overview, wrongful birth lawsuits are prenatal negligence suits brought by the parents of a deformed or retarded child against a doctor who negligently failed to diagnose or inform the pa...

The Dialectics of Wrongful Life and Wrongful Birth Claims in Israel: a Disability Critique

This article examines the dialectics of wrongful life and wrongful birth claims in Israel from 1986 until 2012. In May 2012 Israeli Supreme Court declared that while wrongful birth claims were still permitted, wrongful life claims were no longer accepted in a court of law. The article examines the conditions that allowed for and supported the expansion of wrongful life/birth claims until 2012. ...

Excusing by statute the missing elements of torts of eugenic nondisclosure.

How can there be an opinion at all about nothing? Reflect: when a man has an opinion, has he not an opinion about something? Plato** The precepts of physicians and natural philosophers about generation should also be studied by the parents themselves. GENERAL INTRODUCTION This paper concerns eugenic opportunity lost as a consequence of nondisclosure of eugenic information. The two words which m...