Fetal Privacy and Confidentiality

As the range of conditions for which we can test prenatally expands, society and the medical profession need to develop guidelines about which tests ought to be offered and which ought not to be. Notions of fetal privacy and confidentiality can help to define limits to what parents may reasonably le...

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Main Author: Botkin, Jeffrey R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1995
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 1995, Volume: 25, Issue: 5, Pages: 32-39
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Summary:As the range of conditions for which we can test prenatally expands, society and the medical profession need to develop guidelines about which tests ought to be offered and which ought not to be. Notions of fetal privacy and confidentiality can help to define limits to what parents may reasonably learn about their future child.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3562793