This book explores the emerging speciality of fetal medicine. The new technology for examining DNA is described as a background to later chapters concerned with gene therapy and the examination of the conceptus. An account of laboratory techniques for studying the mouse embryo is illustrated by outstanding photographs of scanning electron microscopy. This book will be of interest to all those who are involved with the care of the pregnant woman and her fetus whether in medicine or in the law.

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List of Plates - Preface - The Galton Lecture for 1992. The Changing Status of the Fetus; S.L.Barron - PART 1: FETAL DIAGNOSIS - Applications of Recent Advances in DNA Techniques in the Fetus; A.Curtis - Normal Fetal Development and the Time of Origin of Some Structural Abnormalities; M.J.Seller - Preimplantation Diagnosis of Genetic Disease; P.R.Braude - Clinical Methods of Prenatal Diagnosis; S.A.Walkinshaw - PART 2: MANAGEMENT AND TREATMENT - Management in a Fetal Medicine Clinic; T.Lind - Fetal Surgery; D.K.Nakayama - Fetal Therapy; M.J.Whittle - Gene Therapy and Fetal Medicine; M.Pembrey - PART 3: ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES - 'Calming or Harming?': The Ethics of Screening for Fetal Defects; G.R.Dunstan - The Legal Status of the Embryo and the Fetus; D.Morgan - Fetal Medicine: LegaL and Ethical Implications; A.McCall Smith - Index