July 26, 2017 |
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Pregnant women get bossed around by doctors‚ relatives and strangers dispensing advice on what’s best for their baby.
But a new study says the coercion of mothers-to-be — in particular their exclusion from clinical studies — is unfair and potentially harmful.
Doctors Carleigh Krubiner and Ruth Faden‚ from Johns Hopkins University in the US‚ said there was a desperate need to “protect women through research‚ not just from research”.
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Tags: baby, bioethics, fetus, health policy, mother, pregnancy ethics, public health, research, second wave, vaccine, virus, vulnerability, zika
Source: Bioethics Bulletin by the Berman Institute of Bioethics.
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