The Fetus as a Patient

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 a 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 Analysis of Representations of (Genetic) Reproductive Medicine and the Fetus in Popular Media; 7.The Fetus as a Patient in Professional and Patient Discourses; 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