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Faith, Hope and Informed Consent: Ethical Challenges in Maternal-Fetal Research

Speaker(s)

Treuman Katz Ethics Lecture

Larry R. Churchill, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Date 10.1.09

Dr. Churchill discusses the challenges of fetal surgery for meningomylocele. He discusses the challenges of parental motives and expectations, and the challenges providers face in communicating about informed consent when researchers may have beliefs about the value of interventions.