This outstanding textbook and clinical reference takes a case-based approach to the basic pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of disease in the newborn foal, along with neonatal pharmacology, nutrition, assessment, and high-risk pregnancies. Takes a case-based approach to…
Discusses the apparent advantage of mothers, who have recently immigrated from Mexico over their counterparts with similar risk profiles in terms of low-birth weight babies.
According to the Latina health paradox, Mexican immigrant women have less complicated pregnancies and more favorable birth outcomes than many other groups, in spite of socioeconomic disadvantage. In Patient Citizens, Immigrant Mothers, Alyshia G̀lvez takes us from inside the hall…
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…
"Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care. Accordingly, physicians tend to perceive the fetus as a patient and understand themselves as having certain professional duties towards it. Howe…
