Prenatal monitoring for normal pregnancies in France actually occurs in three different forms regarding the mother and the fetus : clinical, biological and ultrasonographic. The medicalisation of pregnancy is an illustration of how our society tends to be more and more medical. It questions health policy, particularly in perinatality. We think that medical practices and political decisions are tending towards normalization. This evolution raises ethical questions about the objectives and consequences of this prenatal health policy. What's the place for singularity ? We wish to demonstrate along this work how multiple factors transform medical practices and perinatal health policies, and how this evolution brings us to a deeper ethical refle...
Nowadays, the prenatal diagnosis allows a deeper foetal analysis. Yet, for some diseases there is no...
International audiencePregnant women in France are routinely offered Down’s syndrome screening tests...
International audienceFetal medicine practices, enable screening in utero fetal anomalies. These dia...
The living fetus has become object of study of medicine only recently, i.e., since the 1960s. The de...
France is the european country that performs the most obstetric ultrasounds. According to a perinata...
Version française de l'article pubié en anglaisThe world-wide diffusion of prenatal ultrasound has e...
The discovery of an ultrasonographic presenting sign during the first trimester of pregnancy modify ...
Fetal ultrasound is a major examination in pregnancy follow up. It is important for both prenatal nu...
International audienceDevelopments in biomedicine have remodelled the time-honoured questions of how...
This article summarizes the results of two works of research carried out independently of one anothe...
Down's Syndrome prenatal diagnostic and screening techniques have spread widely in France over the l...
International audienceThe increase in age-related infertility in advanced industrial societies has l...
The questions raised by scientific evolution are of particular relevance, as evidenced by the recent...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of French law (court rulings in the Per...
Nowadays, the prenatal diagnosis allows a deeper foetal analysis. Yet, for some diseases there is no...
International audiencePregnant women in France are routinely offered Down’s syndrome screening tests...
International audienceFetal medicine practices, enable screening in utero fetal anomalies. These dia...
The living fetus has become object of study of medicine only recently, i.e., since the 1960s. The de...
France is the european country that performs the most obstetric ultrasounds. According to a perinata...
Version française de l'article pubié en anglaisThe world-wide diffusion of prenatal ultrasound has e...
The discovery of an ultrasonographic presenting sign during the first trimester of pregnancy modify ...
Fetal ultrasound is a major examination in pregnancy follow up. It is important for both prenatal nu...
International audienceDevelopments in biomedicine have remodelled the time-honoured questions of how...
This article summarizes the results of two works of research carried out independently of one anothe...
Down's Syndrome prenatal diagnostic and screening techniques have spread widely in France over the l...
International audienceThe increase in age-related infertility in advanced industrial societies has l...
The questions raised by scientific evolution are of particular relevance, as evidenced by the recent...
OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of French law (court rulings in the Per...
Nowadays, the prenatal diagnosis allows a deeper foetal analysis. Yet, for some diseases there is no...
International audiencePregnant women in France are routinely offered Down’s syndrome screening tests...
International audienceFetal medicine practices, enable screening in utero fetal anomalies. These dia...