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Chapter 7 - Prevention of Pregnancy

from Section 3 - Professionally Responsible Clinical Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2019

Laurence B. McCullough ,
John H. Coverdale  and
Frank A. Chervenak
Laurence B. McCullough
Affiliation:
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
John H. Coverdale
Affiliation:
Baylor College of Medicine, Texas
Frank A. Chervenak
Affiliation:
Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
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This chapter provides guidance on deliberative clinical judgment and decision making about preventing pregnancy in professional ethics in gynecology.

The biologic concept of sex is an essential component of the biologic concept of fertility. It is used to categorize human beings according to reproductive role: only the capacity to produce gametes, or the capacity to produce gametes and initiate a pregnancy. Sex was once thought to be dimorphic, but modern genomics of chromosomes has abandoned dimorphism for a concept of biologic sex as ranging along a continuum between these two productive roles. In other words, like all other human traits, biologic sex displays variation.

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Professional Ethics in Obstetrics and Gynecology , pp. 107 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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