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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Main Author: Bergeron, Veronique (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2007
In: Bioethics
Year: 2007, Volume: 21, Issue: 9, Pages: 478-487
Further subjects:B cesarean section
B patient-choice surgery
B Medicalization
B ACOG
B CDMR
B maternal request
B contextual ethics
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