Between professional duty and ethical confusion: Midwives and selective termination of pregnancy

Nursing Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 179-191

  Cignacco, Eva ^a  

^a University Hospital Insel   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ethical dilemma; midwifery; professional attitude; selective termination of pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CHILD ADVOCACY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DECISION MAKING; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FEMALE; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NEWBORN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE MIDWIFE; NURSING; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

ABNORMALITIES; ABORTION, THERAPEUTIC; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD ADVOCACY; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERVIEWS; MORALS; NURSE MIDWIVES; NURSE'S ROLE; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PREGNANCY; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 11244345226     PISSN: 09697330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0969733002ne496oa     Document Type: Article

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