Pregnant Woman vs. Fetus: A Dilemma for Hospital Ethics Committees

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1 (1):51 (1992)
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Hospital ehtics committees are often consulted when cmopeting patient interests blur an otherwise clear course of medical treatment. Nowhere is the potential for competing interests greater than in the field of abosterics, wherer obstetricians have traditionally viewed themselves as having two patients: the pregnant woman and the fetus

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Controlling the Woman to Protect the Fetus.Martha A. Field - 1989 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 17 (2):114-129.
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