Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women, and parents of premature or disabled infants. In addition, the unprecedented technological developments in obstetrical, perinatal, and neonatal medicine in recent years have indicated a need for an international forum for interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the definition of early human life, the neurological development of early human life, the value of early human life, the obligations for its...

Progress in biomedical science has called for an international discussion of the medical, ethical, and legal problems that confront physicians, medical researchers, infertile couples, pregnant women, and parents of premature or disabled infants. In addition, the unprecedented technological developments in obstetrical, perinatal, and neonatal medicine in recent years have indicated a need for an international forum for interdisciplinary dialogue regarding the definition of early human life, the neurological development of early human life, the value of early human life, the obligations for its...

This textbook has its ongm in a longstanding international profes sional and personal relationship of the authors. The success of the German edition was a result of the interest of the German authors, Dr. K. Knorr and Dr. C. Lauritzen, in synthesizing basic and clinical information in a textbook, the size and scope of which are appropriate to the modern undergraduate medical student. A unique feature of the volume was the addition of American gynecological thinking by Dr. F. K. Beller, who spent 12 years at New York University before returning to Germany. The English edition, which is aimed...

Die stiirmische Entwicklung von der Pdinatalen Diagnose zur Pranatalen Medizin hat bisherige festgefligte Vorstellungen ins Wanken gebracht. Begriffe wie "Schwanger schaftsabbruch" und "friihe Einleitung" beginnen sich zu iiberdecken. Wenn auch die Zahl der angeborenen Erkrankungen, die man pranatal behandeln kann, noch sehr klein ist, so beeindruckt doch die Moglichkeit, aus einigen wenigen Zellen schon im ersten Trimester schwierige Diagnosen stellen zu konnen. Noch ist es zu fruh zu entscheiden, ob wir an der Schwelle zum Umschlag von der Amniozentese zur Chorionbiopsie stehen. Immerhin...