Silenced voices: Israeli mothers' experience of feticide

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 747-754

  Leichtentritt, Ronit D ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Feticide; Fetus abnormality; Israel; Late termination of pregnancy; Morality; Mothers

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; DECISION MAKING; MORALITY; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FETICIDE; FETUS MALFORMATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ABORTION, EUGENIC; ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FETUS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIOLOGY;

ISRAEL;

EID: 79952003979     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.12.021     Document Type: Article

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