Ethics roundtable: choice and autonomy in obstetrics
Decisions about how and where they deliver their baby are extremely important to pregnant women. There are very strong ethical norms that women’s autonomy should be respected, and that plans around birth should be personalized. However, there appear to be profound challenges in practice to respectin...
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BMJ Publishing Group
2024
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| author | Wilkinson, D Teli, S Litchfield, C Madeley, A Kelly, B Impey, L Brown, R Kingma, E Turnham, H |
| author_facet | Wilkinson, D Teli, S Litchfield, C Madeley, A Kelly, B Impey, L Brown, R Kingma, E Turnham, H |
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| description | Decisions about how and where they deliver their baby are extremely important to pregnant
women. There are very strong ethical norms that women’s autonomy should be respected,
and that plans around birth should be personalized.
However, there appear to be profound challenges in practice to respecting women’s choices
in pregnancy and in labour. Choices carry risks and consequences – to the woman and her
child; also potentially to her caregivers and to other women.
What does it mean for women’s autonomy be respected in obstetrics? How should health
professionals respond to refusals of treatment or to requests for care outside normal
guidelines? What are the ethical limits to autonomy? In this clinical ethics roundtable, service
users, midwives, obstetricians, philosophers and ethicists respond to two hypothetical cases
drawn from real-life scenarios. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2d982e0d-10d8-47c3-bc74-5b5eb32e14672025-01-07T07:36:16ZEthics roundtable: choice and autonomy in obstetricsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:2d982e0d-10d8-47c3-bc74-5b5eb32e1467EnglishSymplectic ElementsBMJ Publishing Group2024Wilkinson, DTeli, SLitchfield, CMadeley, AKelly, BImpey, LBrown, RKingma, ETurnham, HDecisions about how and where they deliver their baby are extremely important to pregnant women. There are very strong ethical norms that women’s autonomy should be respected, and that plans around birth should be personalized. However, there appear to be profound challenges in practice to respecting women’s choices in pregnancy and in labour. Choices carry risks and consequences – to the woman and her child; also potentially to her caregivers and to other women. What does it mean for women’s autonomy be respected in obstetrics? How should health professionals respond to refusals of treatment or to requests for care outside normal guidelines? What are the ethical limits to autonomy? In this clinical ethics roundtable, service users, midwives, obstetricians, philosophers and ethicists respond to two hypothetical cases drawn from real-life scenarios. |
| spellingShingle | Wilkinson, D Teli, S Litchfield, C Madeley, A Kelly, B Impey, L Brown, R Kingma, E Turnham, H Ethics roundtable: choice and autonomy in obstetrics |
| title | Ethics roundtable: choice and autonomy in obstetrics |
| title_full | Ethics roundtable: choice and autonomy in obstetrics |
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