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PDFReproductive ethics
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Dotting the I's and crossing the T's: autonomy and/or beneficence? The ‘fetus as a patient’ in maternal–fetal surgery
- Correspondence to Catarina Rodrigues, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Medical Center Groningen, Hanzeplein 1, postbus 30.001, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands; catarina.rod{at}gmail.com
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Dotting the I's and crossing the T's: autonomy and/or beneficence? The ‘fetus as a patient’ in maternal–fetal surgery
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- Received May 8, 2012
- Revised November 30, 2012
- Accepted December 18, 2012
- First published January 24, 2013.
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April 27, 2016
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