1. "Baby Doe": two children and a white house crusade -- 2. Infanticide: an overview -- 3. Born too soon: treating the premature baby -- 4. The dark side of progress: low-birthweight infants and the handicapped rate -- 5. Birth defects: a trail of ancient riddles -- 6. Suffer the children -- 7. Sanctity of life vs. quality of life: the ethics of neonatal care -- 9. Families in distress -- 10. Shortchanging the disabled -- 11. The high cost of saving babies -- 12. The handicapped speak -- 13. What the future holds: genetic engineering and the prevention of birth defects -- 14. Conclusions
Notes
An outgrowth of a series of articles written for the Chicago tribune in 1983
