Neonatal bioethics

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"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.

subjects: Neonatologie,  Neonatal Intensive Care Units,  MEDICAL,  Pediatric & Neonatal,  Ethische aspecten,  History, 20th Century,  Moral and ethical aspects,  Nursing,  Legislation & jurisprudence,  Neonatal Intensive Care,  Perinatology & Neonatology,  Trends,  Ethics,  History,  Neonatology,  Intensive care units,  United states, history, 20th century,  Case Reports,  Nouveau-nes,  Soins intensifs,  Aspect moral,  Histoire

Places: United States