Neonatal bioethics : the moral challenges of medical innovation / John D. Lantos and William L. Meadow.

  • Lantos, John D.
Date:
2008
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.

Physical description

177 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    USE.AQ.AA9-10
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ISBN

  • 9780801890895
  • 0801890896