THE ETHICS OF CESAREAN SECTION ON MATERNAL REQUEST: A FEMINIST CRITIQUE OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS' POSITION ON PATIENT-CHOICE SURGERY
In recent years, the medical establishment has been speaking in favor of women's autonomy in childbirth by advocating cesarean delivery on maternal request (CDMR). This paper offers to look at the ethical dimension of CDMR through a feminist critique of the medicalization of childbirth and its...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2007
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Bioethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 9, Pages: 478-487 |
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cesarean section
B patient-choice surgery B Medicalization B ACOG B CDMR B maternal request B contextual ethics |
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