Feminist ethics must inform practice: Interventions with perinatal substance users

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 730-742

  Marcellus, Lenora ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER ISLAND HEALTH AUTHORITY   (Canada)

^c Vancouver Isl Fetal Alcohol Res G   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENEFICENCE; CHILD ABUSE; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFANTICIDE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; POLITICS; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; VIOLENCE;

GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MANDATORY PROGRAMS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PERINATAL CARE; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; VOLUNTARY PROGRAMS; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 4444308937     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330490475584     Document Type: Review

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