Mother and Fetus: Changing Notions of Maternal Responsibility

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No single area of medicine promises more acrimonious and intense debate in the coming decades than the implications of new medical technologies on the maternal-fetal relationships. This book combines comprehensive coverage of the legal and social issues raised as a result of both emerging technologies for fetal intervention and increasing knowledge of fetal development. It examines such issues as the effects of maternal behaviour on the fetus's health, hazards in the workplace, teenage pregnancy, and the use of therapeutic and diagnostic techniques. The volume also summarises the legal/political context of policies regarding the mother's responsibility for the welfare of the fetus and describes the current status of these issues in public law.

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"Mother and Fetuses a very timely and rational treatment of popular attitudes and public laws in a sensitive and difficult area of policy. The book deserves a wide audience but is especially relevant for persons concerned with human rights, domestic relations, public health and medicine, therapy and for lawyers, legislators, judges and journalists."-Lynton K. Caldwell Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Professor of Public and Environmental Science Indiana University _

Author Bio

ROBERT H. BLANK is Professor of Political Science and Associate Director of the Program for Biosocial Research at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Biomedical Technology and Public Policy (Greenwood Press, 1989) and Regulating Reproduction (1990).