Neonatal bioethics
Subtitle: the moral challenges of medical innovation
By: John D. Lantos and William L. Meadow.
Contributors: Meadow, William.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
Subjects: Neonatal intensive care -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.; Neonatology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.; Neonatology -- United States -- History.; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal -- ethics -- United States -- Case Reports.; History, 20th Century -- United States -- Case Reports.; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal -- trends -- United States -- Case Reports.; Intensive Care, Neonatal -- ethics -- United States -- Case Reports.; Intensive Care, Neonatal -- history -- United States -- Case Reports.; Intensive Care, Neonatal -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States -- Case Reports.
Genres: Case Reports.
Description: "The authors assert that a dramatic shift in societal attitudes toward newborns and their medical care was a stimulus for and then a result of developments in the medical care of newborns. They divide their analysis into three eras of neonatal intensive care. The first, characterized by the rapid advance of medical technology from the late 1960s to the Baby Doe case of 1982, established neonatal care as a legitimate specialty of medical care, separate from the rest of pediatrics and medicine. During this era, legal scholars and moral philosophers debated the relative importance of parental autonomy, clinical prognosis, and children's rights." "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some facts about infant mortality and neonatal care; title: The era of innovation and individualism, 1965-1982; title: The era of exposed ignorance, 1982-1992; title: The end of medical progress, 1992 to present; title: Economics of the NICU; title: Roads not taken : four discarded moral choices; title: The possibility of moral progress.