Health professionals and the decision of termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality: between clinical indications and ethical embarrassments
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Date publication
mars 2008
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr WEBER Jean-Christophe
Tous les auteurs :
Weber JC, Allamel-Raffin C, Rusterholtz T, Pons I, Gobatto I
Lien Pubmed
Résumé
Termination of pregnancy for fetal abnormality (TOP) forms an exemplary situation of the ethical tensions traversing health professionals decisions and practices. Although embedded within a legal framework, it raises ethical concerns supported by various levels of uncertainties brought up by the professionals, when TOP takes shape in concrete decisions and practices. It is what this paper explores by pointing up three categories of uncertainty which relate to the decision-making process, to the legitimacy of the act - field of embarrassment for the professionals when medical and social norms are conflictual -, and to its effective realization for the actors who deal with and have to assume it.
Référence
Sci Sociales Sante. 2008 Mar;26(1):93-120