Due to new developments in prenatal testing and therapy the fetus
is increasingly visible, examinable and treatable in prenatal care.
Accordingly, physicians tend to perceive the fetus as a patient and
understand themselves as having certain professional duties towards
it. However, it is far from clear what it means to speak of a
patient in this connection. This volume explores the usefulness and
limitations of the concept of 'fetal patient' against the
background of the recent seminal developments in prenatal or fetal
medicine. It does so from an interdisciplinary and international
perspective. Featuring internationally recognized experts in the
field, the book discusses the normative implications of the concept
of 'fetal patient' from a philosophical-theoretical as well as from
a legal perspective. This includes its implications for the
autonomy of the pregnant woman as well as its consequences for
physician-patient-interactions in prenatal medicine.
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