"Prenatal and preimplantation testing technologies have offered unprecedented access to information about the genetic and congenital makeup of our prospective progeny. Future developments such as preconception testing, non-intrusive prenatal testing and more extensive preimplant…
In your practice, you require advanced knowledge of the obstetrical, medical, genetic and surgical complications of pregnancy and their effects on the mother and fetus. With both basic science and clinical information, six new chapters, and an updated color design, you need look…
Herbst 2009. Sandra Roth ist im neunten Monat schwanger. Mit Lotta, einem Wunschkind, die Vorfreude der Familie ist groß. Doch bei einer Routineuntersuchung erfährt sie, dass das Gehirn ihrer Tochter nicht ausreichend mit Blut versorgt wird. Welche Konsequenzen diese Gefäßfehlbi…
In the last decade there was a widespread use of 3D ultrasound in obstetrical imaging. It is estimated that more than half of the obstetrical clinics are currently using ultrasound equipment with 3D capabilities. Initially known for its beautiful images of the faces of babies, 3…
Since the late nineteenth century, medicine has sought to foster the birth of healthy children by attending to the bodies of pregnant women, through what we have come to call prenatal care. Women, and not their unborn children, were the initial focus of that medical attention, b…
For pregnant women in the 1990s, technological developments have ushered in new and expanding reproductive genetic testing options. Some herald these procedures as advances providing women with previously unavailable information about their pregnancies. Others contend that with …
For pregnant women in the 1990s, technological developments have ushered in new and expanding reproductive genetic testing options. Some herald these procedures as advances providing women with previously unavailable information about their pregnancies. Others contend that with …
The fetus as a patient : a sustainable approach for clinical interactions in the field of new prenatal medicine? / Dagmar Schmitz, Angus Clarke, Wybo Dondorp -- The disposable and protected fetus: contradictions in fetal status / Lucy Frith -- Which ethics for the fetus as a pat…