Medico-legal aspects ogf obstetric scanning and genetic screening
Norrie, Kenneth (1994) Medico-legal aspects ogf obstetric scanning and genetic screening. Current Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 4 (1). pp. 61-63. (https://doi.org/10.1016/0957-5847(94)90015-9)
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While the battle against infectious diseases has seen many successes, the battle against genetic diseases has seen far fewer. This fact is sometimes forgotten since the incidence of births of babies affected with genetic defects has fallen dramatically in recent years; however that fall is due not to the development of cures, but to the development of obstetric scanning and genetic screening, and to the availability of abortion. This gives rise to a number of difficult legal problems. The law of negligence and the possibility of an action against the doctor exists in this field of medical practice as in others, and will be examined first. After that, a number of problems peculiar to this area will be raised.
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Item type: Article ID code: 30755 Dates: DateEventMarch 1994PublishedSubjects: Law > Law (General) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Law School > Law Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 13 Jul 2011 08:54 Last modified: 02 Jun 2024 07:08 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/30755