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  1. The injustice of unsafe motherhood.Rebecca J. Cook & Bernard M. Dickens - 2002 - Developing World Bioethics 2 (1):64–81.
    This paper presents an overview of the dimensions of unsafe motherhood, contrasting data from economically developed countries with some from developing countries. It addresses many common factors that shape unsafe motherhood, identifying medical, health system and societal causes, including women's powerlessness over their reproductive lives in particular as a feature of their dependent status in general. Drawing on perceptions of Jonathan Mann, it focuses on public health dimensions of maternity risks, and equates the role of bioethics in conscientious medical care (...)
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  • The Injustice of Unsafe Motherhood.Bernard M. Dickens Rebecca J. Cook - 2002 - Developing World Bioethics 2 (1):64-81.
    This paper presents an overview of the dimensions of unsafe motherhood, contrasting data from economically developed countries with some from developing countries. It addresses many common factors that shape unsafe motherhood, identifying medical, health system and societal causes, including women's powerlessness over their reproductive lives in particular as a feature of their dependent status in general. Drawing on perceptions of Jonathan Mann, it focuses on public health dimensions of maternity risks, and equates the role of bioethics in conscientious medical care (...)
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  • Negotiating the therapeutic gap: Prenatal diagnostics and termination of pregnancy in Sri lanka. [REVIEW]Bob Simpson - 2007 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 4 (3):207-215.
    In Sri Lanka, termination of pregnancy, other than in extreme circumstances, is strictly illegal. Among the public and large sections of the medical community there is widespread support for some degree of liberalization of the law, particularly where this relates to serious genetic conditions which can be identified prenatally. Tension emerges out of a publicly maintained conservatism on issues of abortion on the one hand and a growing disconnection from unregulated practices of termination in the private sector on the other. (...)
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  • Therapeutic abortion in Islam: contemporary views of Muslim Shiite scholars and effect of recent Iranian legislation.K. M. Hedayat, P. Shooshtarizadeh & M. Raza - 2006 - Journal of Medical Ethics 32 (11):652-657.
    Abortion is forbidden under normal circumstances by nearly all the major world religions. Traditionally, abortion was not deemed permissible by Muslim scholars. Shiite scholars considered it forbidden after implantation of the fertilised ovum. However, Sunni scholars have held various opinions on the matter, but all agreed that after 4 months gestation abortion was not permitted. In addition, classical Islamic scholarship had only considered threats to maternal health as a reason for therapeutic abortion. Recently, scholars have begun to consider the effect (...)
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  • Risk, medicine and women: A case study on prenatal genetic counselling in Brazil.Maria Cristina R. Guilam & Marilena C. D. V. Corrêa - 2007 - Developing World Bioethics 7 (2):78–85.
    Genetic counselling is an important aspect of prenatal care in many developed countries. This tendency has also begun to emerge in Br.
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  • Reproductive Health and Research Ethics: Hot Issues in Argentina.Florencia Luna - 2004 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 13 (3):267-274.
    In this article I focus on two issues concerning bioethics in Argentina: reproductive health and ethics in research. Although these topics are quite dissimilar, they share a particular feature: their special relationship with context.
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  • Ethics and Genetics in Latin America.Eduardo Rivera-Lóez - 2002 - Developing World Bioethics 2 (1):11-20.
    Genetic research in human beings poses deep ethical problems, one being the problem of distributive justice. If we suppose that genetic technologies are able to produce visible benefits for the well being of people, and that these benefits are affordable to only a favored portion of society, then the consequence is obvious. We are introducing a new source of inequality. In the first section of this paper, I attempt to justify some concern for the distributive consequences of applying genetics to (...)
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  • Selective abortion in Brazil: The anencephaly case.Debora Diniz - 2007 - Developing World Bioethics 7 (2):64–67.
    ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the Brazilian Supreme Court ruling on the case of anencephaly. In Brazil, abortion is a crime against the life of a fetus, and selective abortion of non‐viable fetuses is prohibited. Following a paradigmatic case discussed by the Brazilian Supreme Court in 2004, the use of abortion was authorized in the case of a fetus with anencephaly. The objective of this paper is to analyze the ethical arguments of the case, in particular the strategy of avoiding the moral (...)
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  • The influences of bioethics and islamic jurisprudence on policy-making in iran.Kiarash Aramesh - 2007 - American Journal of Bioethics 7 (10):42 – 44.
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  • Life's Dominion: An Argument About Abortion and Euthanasia.Ronald Dworkin - unknown
    In 1993, Professor of Jurisprudence, Ronald Dworkin of Oxford University and Professor of Law at New York University, delivered the Georgetown Law Center’s thirteenth Annual Philip A. Hart Memorial Lecture: "Life’s Dominion: An Argument About Abortion and Euthanasia." Dworkin is Professor of Philosophy and Frank Henry Sommer Professor of Law at New York University. He received B.A. degrees from both Harvard College and Oxford University, and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Learned Hand. He was associated (...)
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