Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery / Edition 1

by Renee R. Anspach

Overview

Ícaro|Ícaro|Ícaro|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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520212138
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	12/05/1997
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	303
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)