Preventing Prenatal Harm: Should the State Intervene?

by Deborah Mathieu

The issues explored in this book have unfortunately come to be known as 'maternal-fetal conflicts'. The phrase is unsatisfactory because it is misleading: It places the emphasis on the well-being of the fetus instead of on the born child (who will bear the burden of any harm done prenatally); it assumes a conflict between a pregnant women and her offspring (while the issue is usually more complex and more broadly based); and it incorrectly implies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792309847
• ISBN13: 9780792309840
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"