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Neonatal bioethics : the moral challenges of medical innovation / John D. Lantos and William L. Meadow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lantos, John D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neonatal intensive care--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Neonatal intensive care.
- Neonatology--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Neonatology.
- Neonatology--United States--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tracing the field's recent history, notable advances, and considerable challenges yet to be faced, the authors present neonatal bioethics as a paradigm of complex conversation among physicians, philosophers, policy makers, judges, and legislators which has led to responsible societal oversight of a controversial medical innovation.
- Contents:
- Some facts about infant mortality and neonatal care
- The era of innovation and individualism, 1965-1982
- The era of exposed ignorance, 1982-1992
- The end of medical progress, 1992 to present
- Economics of the NICU
- Four discarded moral choices
- The possibility of moral progress.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-8900-6
- OCLC:
- 213306065
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