Deciding Who Lives

ISBN: 9780520212138

出版社: Univ of California Pr

出版年: 1997-12

页数: 303

定价: $ 32.71

装帧: Pap

内容简介

In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renee 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.