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Neonatal bioethics : the moral challenges of medical innovation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lantos, John D.
Other Authors: Meadow, William
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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.
History, 20th Century.
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal > trends.
Intensive Care, Neonatal > ethics.
Intensive Care, Neonatal > history.
Intensive Care, Neonatal > legislation & jurisprudence.
United States.
Case Reports.
Table of Contents:
  • Some facts about infant mortality and neonatal care
  • The era of innovation and individualism, 1965-1982
  • The era of exposed ignorance, 1982-1992
  • The end of medical progress, 1992 to present
  • Economics of the NICU
  • Four discarded moral choices
  • The possibility of moral progress