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This book evaluates the effectiveness of prenatal care interventions and provides a framework for prenatal care that looks beyond the limited perspective of immediate neonatal outcomes. Ultimately, this book seeks to improve the content and the implementation of prenatal care by shifting the focus away from short-term technocentric medical advances to concentrate on the broader public health issues. A unique aspect of this book is its focus on the effectiveness of prenatal care interventions on longer-term benefits for women and children's health. Traditional medical interventions, as well as social support and behavioral interventions during prenatal care are reviewed. Effectiveness is considered within the context of its implications for public policy and service delivery. This book is an important resource for maternal and child health professionals, policy makers and health care managers because it provides evidence of the prenatal care services that improve the long-term health of women and children.
Prenatal care. --- Pregnancy --- Complications of pregnancy --- High-risk pregnancy --- Pregnancy, Complications of --- Pregnant women --- Obstetrical emergencies --- Antenatal care --- Antenatal services --- Pre-natal care --- Maternal health services --- Preconception care --- Complications. --- Diseases --- Care --- Prenatal Diagnosis. --- Prenatal care --- Soins prénatals --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics
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Too often, in the debate over reproductive rights and technologies, we lose sight of the fundamental emotional and psychological issues that define the experience of pregnancy. Robin Gregg here draws on the words and stories of over thirty women to provide a first- hand perspective on pregnancy in the modern age.In an age where a new advance in reproductive technology occurs seemingly every month, pregnancy has come to be defined by such medical procedures as prenatal screening, amniocentesis, fetal monitoring, induced labor, and cesarean sections. Public policymakers, ethicists, religious figures, and the medical establishment control the debate, drowning out the voices of women who grapple in the most immediate sense with the issues. Even feminist theorists often overlook the nuances and paradoxes of the reproductive revolution as experienced by individual, particular women.The reader follows these thirty women as they speak about whether to become pregnant, and by what means; how to choose a health provider; what meaning they attribute to their pregnancies; and how they navigate their way through the contradictory pressures they face during pregnancy. The intimate nature of Gregg's research, consisting as it does largely of women's pregnancy narratives, lends her book a vibrancy often lacking in academic writing about reproduction.
Pregnancy --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Choice (Psychology) --- Social control. --- Decision making. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social conflict --- Sociology --- Liberty --- Pressure groups --- Psychology --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Pregnant women --- Gestation --- Conception --- Physiology --- Reproduction --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Social Control --- Medical --- Social Science --- Health & Fitness --- Choice (psychology) --- Social control --- Social science --- Health & fitness
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"Coping with modern technology in the life sciences (biology and medicine) became a major issue for people living in the Twentieth Century, and continues to be so in the present century. Biotechnology creates new opportunities and possibilities, but also new dangers, risks, and ethical concerns. In this volume, ethical dilemmas in the context of a specific biomedical technology are discussed. Experts in ethics, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and medicine jointly investigated a field of prenatal and genetic research that seems particularly challenging: prenatal diagnostics. The new and innovative interdisciplinary dialogue on this topic that is presented in this volume offers a deeper understanding of the ethical dilemmas raised by prenatal and genetic diagnostics, and explores ways to support couples in this extremely difficult situation. In many European countries amniocentesis, for example, is a routine diagnostic tool for women becoming pregnant after the age of thirty-five. In recent decades, enormous progress has been made in diagnosing genetically-based diseases and other serious prenatal abnormalities. Today, we know that a positive prenatal genetic diagnostic creates distress for all women and their partners, and necessitates making the difficult decision as to whether or not to allow the pregnancy to continue. As is demonstrated in this volume through the summaries of interviews with couples, the reactions of women and their partners who are facing this situation can be very different."--Provided by publisher.
Prenatal diagnosis --- Fetus --- Genetic screening --- Medical ethics. --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Abnormalities --- Diagnosis. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Professional ethics. Deontology --- Physical methods for diagnosis --- Gynaecology. Obstetrics
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Increasingly, notions of individual autonomy, personal ""choice"" and preference have become woven into our reproductive expectations. With respect to prenatal screening, the choices sought, offered or denied are shaped and interpreted through a range of so
Prenatal diagnosis --- Informed consent (Medical law) --- Genetic screening --- Consent, Informed --- Consent to treatment --- Disclosure, Medical --- Medical disclosure --- Treatment, Consent to --- Consent (Law) --- Medical ethics --- Medical personnel --- Patient education --- Involuntary treatment --- Patient refusal of treatment --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Malpractice
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Prenatal care --- Fetus --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Law, General & Comparative --- Law, Politics & Government --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Foetus --- Unborn child --- Embryology --- Reproduction --- Antenatal care --- Antenatal services --- Pre-natal care --- Pregnant women --- Maternal health services --- Preconception care --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Care
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Prenatal Genetic Testing, Abortion, and Disability Justice explores the intent and effects of prenatal screening in connection to women's bodily autonomy and disability rights, addressing themes at the intersection of genetic medicine, policymaking, critical disabilities studies, and political theory.
Prenatal diagnosis --- Abortion --- Women's rights. --- Fetus --- Disabilities --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Abnormalities --- Genetic aspects. --- Disability --- Disabling conditions --- Handicaps --- Impairment --- Physical disabilities --- Physical handicaps --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Animals with disabilities --- People with disabilities --- Rights of women --- Women --- Women's rights --- Human rights --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Civil rights --- Law and legislation --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Moral and religious aspects
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Neuropathology --- Semiology. Diagnosis. Symptomatology --- Human embryology --- Central Nervous System --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Prenatal Diagnosis. --- Central nervous system --- -Central nervous system --- -Prenatal diagnosis --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Nervous system, Central --- Nervous system --- Antenatal Diagnosis --- Antenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Antenatal --- Diagnosis, Intrauterine --- Prenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Prenatal --- Intrauterine Diagnosis --- Antenatal Diagnoses --- Antenatal Screenings --- Diagnoses, Antenatal --- Diagnoses, Intrauterine --- Diagnoses, Prenatal --- Intrauterine Diagnoses --- Prenatal Diagnoses --- Prenatal Screenings --- Screening, Antenatal --- Screening, Prenatal --- Screenings, Antenatal --- Screenings, Prenatal --- Genetic Testing --- Neonatal Screening --- Preimplantation Diagnosis --- Genetic Services --- abnormalities. --- embryology. --- Abnormalities --- Diseases --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Abnormalities. --- Diseases. --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- embryology --- abnormalities --- Fetal Diagnosis --- Fetal Imaging --- Fetal Screening --- Diagnosis, Fetal --- Fetal Diagnoses --- Fetal Imagings --- Fetal Screenings --- Imaging, Fetal --- Screening, Fetal
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Human genetics --- Semiology. Diagnosis. Symptomatology --- Paediatrics --- Prenatal Diagnosis. --- Fetal Diseases. --- Congenital Abnormalities --- Fetal Diseases --- Fetus --- -Fetus --- -Prenatal diagnosis --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Foetus --- Unborn child --- Embryology --- Reproduction --- Embryopathies --- Disease, Fetal --- Diseases, Fetal --- Embryopathy --- Fetal Disease --- Perinatology --- Antenatal Diagnosis --- Antenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Antenatal --- Diagnosis, Intrauterine --- Prenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Prenatal --- Intrauterine Diagnosis --- Antenatal Diagnoses --- Antenatal Screenings --- Diagnoses, Antenatal --- Diagnoses, Intrauterine --- Diagnoses, Prenatal --- Intrauterine Diagnoses --- Prenatal Diagnoses --- Prenatal Screenings --- Screening, Antenatal --- Screening, Prenatal --- Screenings, Antenatal --- Screenings, Prenatal --- Genetic Testing --- Neonatal Screening --- Preimplantation Diagnosis --- Genetic Services --- diagnosis. --- Abnormalities --- Diseases --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Abnormalities. --- Diseases. --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Pregnancy --- Abnormalities, Human --- diagnosis --- Complications --- Abnormities and deformities --- Fetal Diagnosis --- Fetal Imaging --- Fetal Screening --- Diagnosis, Fetal --- Fetal Diagnoses --- Fetal Imagings --- Fetal Screenings --- Imaging, Fetal --- Screening, Fetal
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Pathology of the metabolism --- Human genetics --- Semiology. Diagnosis. Symptomatology --- Gynaecology. Obstetrics --- Metabolism, Inborn Errors --- Prenatal Diagnosis. --- Metabolic disorders in children --- -Metabolism, Inborn errors of --- -Prenatal diagnosis --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Hereditary metabolic disorders --- Inborn errors of metabolism --- Genetic disorders --- Metabolism --- Children --- Antenatal Diagnosis --- Antenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Antenatal --- Diagnosis, Intrauterine --- Prenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Prenatal --- Intrauterine Diagnosis --- Antenatal Diagnoses --- Antenatal Screenings --- Diagnoses, Antenatal --- Diagnoses, Intrauterine --- Diagnoses, Prenatal --- Intrauterine Diagnoses --- Prenatal Diagnoses --- Prenatal Screenings --- Screening, Antenatal --- Screening, Prenatal --- Screenings, Antenatal --- Screenings, Prenatal --- Genetic Testing --- Neonatal Screening --- Preimplantation Diagnosis --- Genetic Services --- diagnosis. --- Disorders --- Diseases --- Metabolism, Inborn errors of --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Metabolism, Inborn errors --- Diagnosis. --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- diagnosis --- Fetal Diagnosis --- Fetal Imaging --- Fetal Screening --- Diagnosis, Fetal --- Fetal Diagnoses --- Fetal Imagings --- Fetal Screenings --- Imaging, Fetal --- Screening, Fetal
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Fetus --- Prenatal diagnosis. --- Abnormalities --- Genetic aspects. --- Diseases --- Genetisch risico --- Erfelijkheidsleer --- Foetus --- Foetale ontwikkeling --- Prenatal diagnosis --- Fetal Diseases --- Genetic Diseases, Inborn --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Antenatal Diagnosis --- Antenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Antenatal --- Diagnosis, Intrauterine --- Prenatal Screening --- Diagnosis, Prenatal --- Intrauterine Diagnosis --- Antenatal Diagnoses --- Antenatal Screenings --- Diagnoses, Antenatal --- Diagnoses, Intrauterine --- Diagnoses, Prenatal --- Intrauterine Diagnoses --- Prenatal Diagnoses --- Prenatal Screenings --- Screening, Antenatal --- Screening, Prenatal --- Screenings, Antenatal --- Screenings, Prenatal --- Genetic Testing --- Neonatal Screening --- Preimplantation Diagnosis --- Genetic Services --- Genetic Diseases --- Genetic Disorders --- Hereditary Disease --- Inborn Genetic Diseases --- Single-Gene Defects --- Hereditary Diseases --- Defect, Single-Gene --- Defects, Single-Gene --- Disease, Genetic --- Disease, Hereditary --- Disease, Inborn Genetic --- Diseases, Genetic --- Diseases, Hereditary --- Diseases, Inborn Genetic --- Disorder, Genetic --- Disorders, Genetic --- Genetic Disease --- Genetic Disease, Inborn --- Genetic Disorder --- Inborn Genetic Disease --- Single Gene Defects --- Single-Gene Defect --- Genetics, Medical --- Antenatal diagnosis --- Intrauterine diagnosis --- Prenatal testing --- Diagnosis --- Obstetrics --- Unborn child --- Embryology --- Reproduction --- Abnormalities&delete& --- Genetic aspects --- Diseases&delete& --- genetics --- Fetal Diagnosis --- Fetal Imaging --- Fetal Screening --- Diagnosis, Fetal --- Fetal Diagnoses --- Fetal Imagings --- Fetal Screenings --- Imaging, Fetal --- Screening, Fetal