'They Say Islam Has A Solution For Everything, So Why Are There No Guidelines For This?' Ethical Dilemmas Associated With The Births And Deaths Of Infants With Fatal Abnormalities From A Small Sample Of Pakistani Muslim Couples In Britain

Bioethics

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 485-492

  Shaw, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abortion; British Pakistanis; Infant death; Islam; Stillbirth; Withdrawal of life support

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DELIVERY; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUCED ABORTION; MULTIPLE MALFORMATION SYNDROME; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RELIGION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ABORTION, INDUCED; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; PAKISTAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84867687255     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: 14678519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01883.x     Document Type: Article

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