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Antenatal screening and its possible meaning from unborn baby's perspective

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Ethics, May 2001
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (86th percentile)

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Title
Antenatal screening and its possible meaning from unborn baby's perspective
Published in
BMC Medical Ethics, May 2001
DOI 10.1186/1472-6939-2-3
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Sahin Aksoy

Abstract

In recent decades antenatal screening has become one of the most routine procedure of pregnancy-follow up and the subject of hot debate in bioethics circles. In this paper the rationale behind doing antenatal screening and the actual and potential problems that it may cause will be discussed. The paper will examine the issue from the point of view of parents, health care professionals and, most importantly, the child-to-be. It will show how unthoughtfully antenatal screening is performed and how pregnancy is treated almost as a disease just since the emergence of antenatal screening. Genetic screening and ethical problems caused by the procedure will also be addressed and I will suggest that screening is more to do with the interests of others rather than those of the child-to be.

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Geographical breakdown

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Unknown 6 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Doctoral Student 2 33%
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 17%
Student > Postgraduate 1 17%
Student > Master 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 2 33%
Philosophy 1 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 17%
Environmental Science 1 17%
Unknown 1 17%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2023.
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#4,288,633
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#5,794
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#1
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