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    The clinical relevance of whole-exome sequencing is unquestionable. In the prenatal setting, the standard testing process of reflexing from karyotype to microarray to single-gene disorders may take several weeks, leaving a family in prolonged turmoil and often without answers in time to make a decision about the pregnancy. WES provides a powerful amount of data more quickly and with a higher yield of diagnostic results, allowing a timelier plan for medical management and decision-making. However…Read more
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    Unplanned Cesarean Birth: Can the Quality of Consent Affect Birth Experiences?
    with Paul Burcher, Shazneen Hushmendy, Meredith Chan-Mahon, Megha Dasani, and Erin Crosby
    AJOB Empirical Bioethics 11 (4): 268-274. 2020.
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    Beneficence in Maternity Care: Objective Aspects of Subjective Goals
    with Paul Burcher
    American Journal of Bioethics 20 (3): 88-90. 2020.
    Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2020, Page 88-90.
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    Hans Jonas and the Value of Life
    Theoretical and Applied Ethics 2 (1): 103-114. 2013.
    Daniel Callahan, in his short article “Hans Jonas and Death,” writes that while he appreciates the perspective on death offered by Jonas in his “The Burden and Blessing of Mortality,” he is concerned by certain omissions that suggest Jonas may not have fully appreciated the value of life. Callahan writes that Jonas does not say “a great deal about why life is worth living,” give an account of the “meaning of evolution for human life,” or describe the “experiences and possibilities in the content…Read more
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    Disclosure of Genetic Risk: When Genetic Relatives Are Not Family Members
    with Jane Jankowski
    American Journal of Bioethics 18 (7): 77-79. 2018.
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    There Is No Place Like Home: Why Women Are Choosing Home Birth in the Era of "Homelike" Hospitals
    with Paul Burcher
    International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (1): 149-165. 2016.
    In a recent article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Frank Chervenak et al. argue that home birth is less safe than hospital birth, and that physicians have a dual duty to avoid any collaboration with home birth midwives and to make hospital birth more psychologically and socially supportive to accommodate women who want more choices during labor. The assertion that home birth is significantly less safe than hospital birth has been responded to by Howard Minkoff and Jeffrey …Read more