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The Fetus as a Patient: A Contested Concept and its Normative Implications
This volume explores the normative implications of the concept of the fetal patient against the background of the recent seminal developments in prenatal or fetal medicine from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.
| Author(s) | Edited by Dagmar Schmitz, Angus Clarke (Cardiff University, UK Cardiff University, Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK Cardiff University, Wales College of Medicine, UK Cardiff University, UK), Wybo Dondorp. |
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| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 214 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 16 Apr 2018 |
| Availability | Available |
This volume explores the normative implications of the concept of the fetal patient against the background of the recent seminal developments in prenatal or fetal medicine from an interdisciplinary and international perspective.
Part I: Introduction; 1.The Fetus as a Patient - a Sustainable Approach for Clinical Interactions in the Field of New Prenatal Medicine?; Part II: The Fetus as a Patient: A useful concept?; 2. The Disposable and Protected Fetus: Contradictions in Fetal St
Dagmar Schmitz is Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Theory at the Institute for History, Theory and Ethics in Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and a member of the German Commission on Genetic Testing (GEKO). In her research, she is espec
