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The significance of relating to people in the prenatal diagnostics decision-making process as subjects with an unconscious is studied in this article. It is done in comparison to treating them as clients or to treating them as patients. These three different ways of relating to the person in the decision making process – Client, Patient and Subject – are studied from an ethical point of view. It is argued that the consideration of the unconscious in this decision-making process could promote a more ethical and responsible way of working through this process for the person who has to decide and for the doctor/counsellor.
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Tzivoni, Y. (2011). Client, Patient, Subject; Whom Should We Treat? On the Significance of the Unconscious in Medical Care and Counselling. In: Fischmann, T., Hildt, E. (eds) Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1396-3_11
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