Ethical theory and principles: do they have any relevance to problems arising in everyday practice?
review · Level V
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Abstract
This review of ethical theories with application to two difficult obstetric cases will allow the practicing obstetrician and gynecologist to use these theories to help resolve difficult ethical dilemmas. In the first case a pregnant human immunodeficiency virus-infected woman refuses to take triple preventive therapy, with potential fetal harm. In the second case a couple with a quintuplet multifetal pregnancy needs assistance to decide about selective termination to effect fetal reduction.
Medical subject headings
- Caregivers
- Ethics, Medical
- Female
- HIV Infections
- HIV Infections/prevention & control
- Humans
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases
- Infant, Newborn, Diseases/prevention & control
- Models, Theoretical
- Obstetrics
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
- Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/prevention & control
- Professional Practice
- Treatment Refusal