The Fetus as a Patient: A Contested Concept and its Normative Implications

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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 status
	3 Which ethics for the fetus as patient?
	4 The ethical concept of the fetus as a patient: responses to its critics
	5 Treating the fetus as a patient: possible implications for its moral status
PART III The fetus as a patient: where does that leave the pregnant woman?
	6 Insights from a perspective of cultural anthropology: a discourse analyses of representations of (genetic) reproductive medicine and the fetus in popular media
	7 The fetus as a patient: professional and patient discourse
	8 Means, ends, and the fetal patient
	9 Caring for pregnant cancer patients
PART IV The fetus as a patient: challenges for clinical care pathways and interactions
	10 Treatments and trials for the fetal patient: imposing the burdens of enthusiasm?
	11 Ethics of involving pregnant women in fetal therapy trials
	12 The \'normalization\' of prenatal screening: prevention as prenatal beneficence
	13 Beyond the fetal patient: the ethics of fetal treatment for Down syndrome
	14 Prenatal therapy for differences of sexual development (DSD): fuzzy boundaries in the clinical discussion and the ethical debate
	15 Perinatal palliative care as an option in prenatally  diagnosed severe, life-limiting conditions of the fetus
PART V The fetus as a patient: legal perspective
	16 The legal status of the fetus as a patient in Europe
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