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Part I: Introduction 1. The Fetus as a Patient - a Sustainable Approach for Clinical Interactions in the Field of New Prenatal Medicine? - Dagmar Schmitz, Angus Clarke, Wybo Dondorp Part II: The Fetus as a Patient: A useful concept? 2. The Disposable and Protected Fetus: Contradictions in Fetal Status - Lucy Frith 3. Which Ethics for the Fetus as a Patient? - Claudia Wiesemann 4. The Ethical Concept of the Fetus as a Patient: Responses to its Critics - Laurence B. McCullough, Frank A. Chervenak 5. Treating the Fetus as a Patient: Possible Implications for its Moral Status - Katrin E. Lorch- Merkle Part III: The Fetus as a Patient: Where does that leave the pregnant woman? 6. Insights from a Perspective of Cultural Anthropology: A Discourse Analysis of Representations of (Genetic) Reproductive Medicine and the Fetus in Popular Media - Janina Krause 7. The Fetus as a Patient in Professional and Patient Discourses - Heather Strange 8. Means, Ends and the Fetal Patient - Anna Smajdor 9. Caring for Pregnant Cancer Patients - Alma Linkeviciute Part IV: The Fetus as a Patient: Challenges for clinical care pathways and interactions 10. Treatments and Trials for the Fetal Patient: Imposing the Burdens of Enthusiasm? - Angus Clarke 11. Ethics of Involving Pregnant Women in Fetal Therapy Trials - E.J. (Joanne) Verweij 12. The ‘Normalization’ of Prenatal Screening: Prevention as Prenatal Beneficence? - Wybo Dondorp, Guido de Wert 13. Beyond the Fetal Patient: The Ethics of Fetal Treatment for Down Syndrome - Guido de Wert, Wybo Dondorp 14. Prenatal Therapy for Differences of Sexual Development (DSD): Fuzzy Boundaries in the Clinical Discussion and the Ethical Debate - Mathias Wirth and Marc-Antoine Marquis 15. Perinatal Palliative Care as an Option in Prenatally Diagnosed Severe, Life-Limiting Conditions of the Fetus - Kathrin Knochel, Franziska Flaig, Julia D. Lotz, Monika Fuhrer Part V: The Fetus as a Patient: Legal perspective 16. The Legal Status of the Fetus as a Patient in Europe - Atina Krajewska, Dimitros Tsarapatsanis