The Professional Responsibility Model of Perinatal Ethics

Perinatologists confront many ethical challenges in clinical care and research for which they need ethically sound, clinically practical guidance for clinical judgment and decision making with their patients.This is the first book to address these challenges in a clinically practical and comprehensive way. The unique feature of the book is its deployment of the professional responsibility model of perinatal ethics and the ethical concept of the fetus as a patient. The authors, a perinatologist and philosopher, have collaborated for more than thirty years.

Frank A. Chervenak, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA; Laurence B. McCullough, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA.