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Health care in the US and elsewhere has been rocked by economic upheaval. Cost-cuts, care-cuts, and confusion abound. Traditional tort and contract law have not kept pace. Physicians are still expected to deliver the same standard of care -- including costly resources - to everyone, regardlesswhether it is paid for. Health plans can now face litigation for virtually any unfortunate outcome, even those stemming from society's mandate to keep co...

The issues explored in this book have unfortunately come to be known as 'maternal-fetal conflicts'. The phrase is unsatisfactory because it is misleading: It places the emphasis on the well-being of the fetus instead of on the born child (who will bear the burden of any harm done prenatally), it assumes a conflict between a pregnant women and her offspring (while the issue is usually more complex and more broadly based), and it incorrectly imp...

Overview.- A Bit of History.- Economic Forces, Clinical Constraints.- Fiscal Scarcity: Challenging Fidelity.- The Limits and Obligations of Fidelity: Resource Use.- The Obligations and Limits of Fidelity: Physicians¿ Professional Services.- The New Medical Ethics of Medicine¿s New Economics.

The Clinical Medical Ethics series explores central themes and issues in bioethics and health care policy in single-author short volumes. Written to be accessible to physicians, nurses, lawyers, and those working on health policy, not just specialists in ethics or bioethics, each volume offers a new approach to the subject matter and provides a synthetic account of complex literature.

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The issues explored in this book have unfortunately come to be known as 'maternal-fetal conflicts'. The phrase is unsatisfactory because it is misleading: It places the emphasis on the well-being of the fetus instead of on the born child (who will bear the burden of any harm done prenatally), it assumes a conflict between a pregnant women and her offspring (while the issue is usually more complex and more broadly based), and it incorrectly imp...