Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. The professional responsibility model of perinatal ethics -- 2. Induced abortion and feticide -- 3. Periviability -- 4. Intrapartum management -- 5. Planned home birth -- 6. Pregnant patients with mental disorders -- 7. Neonatal management -- 8. Perinatal innovation and research -- 9. Women and children first: Advocacy in perinatal medicine -- 10. Critically appraising the literature of perinatal ethics -- 11. Acknowledgements -- Index
Summary
Perinatologists confront many ethical challenges in clinical care and research for which they need ethically sound, clinically practical guidance for clinical judgment and decision making with their patients. This is the first book to address these challenges in a clinically practical and comprehensive way. The unique feature of the book is its deployment of the professional responsibility model of perinatal ethics and the ethical concept of the fetus as a patient. The authors, a perinatologist and philosopher, have collaborated for more than thirty years
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
