Preventing Prenatal Harm: Should the State Intervene?

di D. Mathieu (Autore)

E. Haavi Morreim (Autore)

Springer, 1991

The issues explored in this book have unfortunately come to be known as 'maternal-fetal conflicts'. The phrase is unsatisfactory because it is misleading: It places the emphasis on the well-being of the fetus instead of on the born child (who will bear the burden of any harm done prenatally); it assumes a conflict between a pregnant women and her offspring (while the issue is usually more complex and more broadly based); and it incorrectly implies that all pregnant women are appropriately regarded as mothers. For these reasons, I have chosen to avoid the phrase 'matern- fetal conflict' altogether, and will instead speak in terms of 'preventable prenatal harm'. I mention this at the outset, for those of you familiar with 'maternal-fetal conflicts' who might be wondering if I am addressing the same issues. Yes. But I am trying to look at them in a new - and I hope more fruitful - way. I would like to thank the other participants in the Hastings Center's maternal-fetal project - especially those who disageed with me - for being so thought-provoking. And I owe a lasting debt of gratitude to Henry Ruth and Allen Buchanan for their invaluable counsel.

• Autore: D. Mathieu, E. Haavi Morreim
• Editore: Springer
• Collana: Clinical Medical Ethics
• Anno: 1991
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 156 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 155 mm
• EAN: 9780792309840

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