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Author Lantos, John D

Title The Lazarus case : life-and-death issues in neonatal intensive care / John D. Lantos
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 183 pages)
Series Medicine & culture
Medicine & culture.
Contents Somebody will pay -- Passing out in the NICU -- Learning about death and dying -- Standards of care -- Prognostication and futility -- Consent, communication, shared decision making -- Getting paid -- Home births -- Mistakes in context -- Closing argument
Summary In this volume, John Lantos weaves a story that captures the dilemmas of modern medical practice. He draws on his experience in neonatal medicine, paediatrics and medical ethics to explore ethical dilemmas through one poignant representative situation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-178) and index
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Subject Neonatal intensive care -- Moral and ethical aspects
Physicians -- Malpractice.
Decision making.
Medical ethics.
Infants.
Intensive Care, Neonatal -- legislation & jurisprudence
Decision Making
Ethics, Medical
Infant
Intensive Care, Neonatal -- standards
Resuscitation Orders -- legislation & jurisprudence
decision making.
infants.
MEDICAL -- Ethics.
Medical ethics
Infants
Decision making
Neonatal intensive care -- Moral and ethical aspects
Physicians -- Malpractice
Intensivmedizin
Medizinische Ethik
Neugeborenes
Neonatal intensive care -- Moral and ethical aspects
Physicians -- Malpractice
SUBJECT United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2001001327
ISBN 0801876370
9780801876370
0801867622
9780801867620