Fetal Pain: Do We Know Enough to Do the Right Thing?

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 16, Issue 31 SUPPL., 2008, Pages 117-126

  Derbyshire, Stuart WG ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abortion law and policy; development; fetal; infant; neuroanatomy; nociception; pain

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ABORTION; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE COURSE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; GESTATION PERIOD; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; NOCICEPTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, INDUCED; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50349084378     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(08)31370-6     Document Type: Article

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