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Descriptor English: Wrongful Life
Descriptor Spanish: Derecho de no Nacer
Descriptor vida perjudicial
Entry term(s) eugenesia fallida
nacimiento culposo
nacimiento injusto
negligencia en el diagnóstico prenatal
responsabilidad civil por el diagnóstico prenatal
vida injusta
vida injustificada
Scope note: En derecho, causa de demanda en la que el demandado es responsable del nacimiento de un niño con una grave discapacidad.
Descriptor Portuguese: Direito de não Nascer
Descriptor French: Vie préjudiciable
Entry term(s): Birth, Wrongful
Births, Wrongful
Life, Wrongful
Lives, Wrongful
Wrongful Birth
Wrongful Births
Wrongful Lives
Tree number(s): I01.880.604.583.963
N03.706.535.803
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015974
Scope note: In civil law a cause of action which alleges that a defendant has wrongfully caused a child to be born.
Annotation: legal action alleging "that a defendant has wrongfully caused a child to be born"
Allowable Qualifiers: ES ethics
HI history
Previous Indexing: Jurisprudence (1978-1989)
Malpractice (1973-1989)
Public MeSH Note: 90
History Note: 90
DeCS ID: 24916
Unique ID: D015974
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Date Established: 1990/01/01
Date of Entry: 1989/07/05
Revision Date: 2002/10/31
Wrongful Life - Preferred
Concept UI M0024409
Scope note In civil law a cause of action which alleges that a defendant has wrongfully caused a child to be born.
Preferred term Wrongful Life
Entry term(s) Life, Wrongful
Lives, Wrongful
Wrongful Lives
Wrongful Birth - Narrower
Concept UI M0024410
Preferred term Wrongful Birth
Entry term(s) Birth, Wrongful
Births, Wrongful
Wrongful Births



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