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| Priscilla AldersonSummaryAffiliation: Institute of Education Country: UK Publications
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Prenatal screening and geneticsP Alderson
Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, WC1H ONS, UK
Eur J Public Health 11:231-3. 2001..Policy making and professional and public understandings about screening could be clarified if the distinct meanings of prenatal screening and genetic screening were more precisely observed...
Children as partners with adults in their medical careP Alderson
Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, London, UK
Arch Dis Child 91:300-3. 2006..To investigate the seldom published views of children with type 1 diabetes about their condition and ways in which they share in managing their medical and health care with adults...
Parents' experiences of sharing neonatal information and decisions: consent, cost and riskPriscilla Alderson
Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, 18 Woburn Square, London, WC1H ONR, UK
Soc Sci Med 62:1319-29. 2006..Whereas doctors emphasise distancing aspects of the consent process, parents tend to value 'drawing together' aspects...
Prenatal screening, ethics and Down's syndrome: a literature reviewP Alderson
Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, 18 Woburn Square, London W1H 0NR, UK
Nurs Ethics 8:360-74. 2001....
Competent children? Minors' consent to health care treatment and researchPriscilla Alderson
Institute of Education, London, UK
Soc Sci Med 65:2272-83. 2007..Examples are drawn from empirical research studies about decision-making in healthcare and research involving children in the UK...
Examining ethics in practice: health service professionals' evaluations of in-hospital ethics seminarsPriscilla Alderson
Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Nurs Ethics 9:508-21. 2002..The seminars worked well in the different hospitals and specialties...
Down's syndrome: cost, quality and value of lifeP Alderson
Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK
Soc Sci Med 53:627-38. 2001..Much more social research with people who have congenital conditions is required, if prenatal screening policies and counselling are to be evidence based...
Children's competence to consent to medical treatmentPriscilla Alderson
Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
Hastings Cent Rep 36:25-34. 2006....
Is nondirectiveness possible within the context of antenatal screening and testing?Clare Williams
Social Science Research Unit, University of London, UK
Soc Sci Med 54:339-47. 2002..The paper highlights the dilemmas which a variety of practitioners are dealing with in their daily work, in the hope of encouraging debate about these complex clinical and ethical issues...
Too many choices? Hospital and community staff reflect on the future of prenatal screeningClare William
Social Science Research Unit, University of London, UK
Soc Sci Med 55:743-53. 2002....
What constitutes 'balanced' information in the practitioners' portrayals of Down's syndrome?Clare Williams
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King s College, University of London, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Rd, London, SE1 8WA, UK
Midwifery 18:230-7. 2002..to explore the information that practitioners perceive they give to pregnant women about the condition of Down's syndrome, and to look at some influences on the construction of this information...
Can very young children share in their diabetes care? Ruby's storyKaty Sutcliffe
Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, London University
Paediatr Nurs 16:24-6. 2004
Aiming towards "moral equilibrium": health care professionals' views on working within the morally contested field of antenatal screeningB Farsides
Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, King s College London, University of London, London, UK
J Med Ethics 30:505-9. 2004..To explore the ways in which health care practitioners working within the morally contested area of prenatal screening balance their professional and private moral values...
Dilemmas encountered by health practitioners offering nuchal translucency screening: a qualitative case studyClare Williams
Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA, UK
Prenat Diagn 22:216-20. 2002..To explore dilemmas experienced by practitioners involved in routine prenatal nuchal translucency (NT) screening...
