Many pregnant women use pregnancy related mHealth (PRmHealth) applications,
encompassing a variety of pregnancy apps and wearables. These are mostly directed at …

Background The edge metaphor is ubiquitous in describing the present situation in the
world, and nowhere is this as clearly visible as in medicine.“The edge of medicine” has …

The justification of prenatal screening for fetal abnormalities has traditionally turned on
defining its aim in terms of enabling autonomous reproductive decision-making rather than …

In this chapter, we will discuss the ethics of consent for fetal therapy. The latter term refers to
a very broad field, ranging from open surgery to pharmacotherapy, from experimental …

Pregnant women and physicians have not only a rather short common history but also one
fraught with tension. The central category of medicine as a professional practice–the …

Pregnant women and physicians have not only a rather short common history but also one
fraught with tension. The central category of medicine as a professional practice–the …

Maternal-fetal therapy (MFT) is special because treatment of the fetus is exclusively possible
through the body of another person, the pregnant woman. MFT is a broad specialty with …

A first clinical trial has started and more will follow to investigate the effectiveness and safety
of fetal treatment for Down Syndrome (DS), aimed at raising the future child's IQ through …