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

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

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Author/Contributor(s): Anspach, Renee R
Publisher: University of California Press
Date: 12/05/1997
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
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.