Baby at risk : the uncertain legacies of medical miracles for babies, families, and society /

Baby at risk : the uncertain legacies of medical miracles for babies, families, and society /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guyer, Ruth Levy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sterling, Va. : Capital Books, c2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Capital currents book
Subjects:
Neonatal intensive care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Newborn infants > Care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Newborn infants > Diseases > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Table of Contents:
  • The NICU scene
  • Born at risk
  • Birth of the NICU
  • "Miracle" mythology
  • Comfort care
  • Parents matter
  • Quality of life matters
  • Coping with complexity
  • Advance directives
  • Legislating lives
  • Money matters
  • Experimenting with babies
  • Desirable outcomes
  • Life in the NICU
  • Death in the NICU
  • Immense suffering
  • Sharing responsibility.

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