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The fetus as a patient: An essential ethical concept for maternal-fetal medicine

1 May 1996

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The objective of this paper is to provide an ethical analysis of the concept of the fetus as a patient and to identify the clinical implications of this concept for maternal-fetal medicine. The principles of beneficence and respect for autonomy are applied to the viable and previable fetus. We argue that the viable fetus is a fetal patient. The previable fetus is a fetal patient only when the pregnant woman...

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PMID: 8796779
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6661(199605/06)5:3<115::aid-mfm3>3.0.co;2-p

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