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- Title
Birthing Ethics: What Mothers, Families, Childbirth Educators, Nurses, and Physicians Should Know About the Ethics of Childbirth.
- Authors
Torres, Jennifer M.; De Vries, Raymond G.
- Abstract
This article discusses current ethical issues associated with childbirth in the United States. it provides a review of moral problems and ethical choices made by parents and health-care professionals during the prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. Ethical issues are identified and framed through a "naturalized bioethics" approach, as recommended by Margaret Walker and her colleagues, Hilde Lindemann and Marian Verkerk. This approach critiques traditional bioethics and gives attention to everyday ethics and the social, economic, and political context within which ethical problems exist. This approach provides the reader with the tools needed to critically assess the way ethical problems are defined and resolved.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL ethics; CHILDBIRTH; PARENTS; MEDICAL personnel; BIOETHICS
- Publication
Journal of Perinatal Education, 2009, Vol 18, Issue 1, p12
- ISSN
1058-1243
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1624/105812409X396192