Deciding Who Lives : Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery / Renee R. Anspach; ed. by Renee R. Anspach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anspach, Renee R., Author.

Contributor:

Anspach, Renee R., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1993]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renée Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses, and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns-be they premature, terminally ill, or severely malformed-should be saved by medical technology, or at least kept alive a little longer.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Theorizing About Life-and-Death Decisions

Chapter 3. Predicting the Future

Chapter 4. Producing Assent

Chapter 5. Diffusing Dissent

Chapter 6. Beyond the Nursery

Appendix 1. Field Research and the Sociology of (Sociological) Knowledge

Appendix 2. Interviewing

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 09. Dez 2023)

ISBN:

0-520-35378-1

OCLC:

1414456019