Title Baby at risk : the uncertain legacies of medical miracles for babies, families, and society / Ruth Levy Guyer

Published Sterling, Va. : Capital Books, [2006] ©2006

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WATERFT HEALTH	174.2989201 Guy/Bar		AVAILABLE

Description xx, 161 pages Series A Capital currents book Capital currents book. Contents The NICU scene -- Born at risk -- Birth of the NICU -- "Miracle" mythology -- Comfort care -- Parents matter -- Quality of life matters -- Coping with complexity -- Advance directives -- Legislating lives -- Money matters -- Experimenting with babies -- Desirable outcomes -- Life in the NICU -- Death in the NICU -- Immense suffering -- Sharing responsibility Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Neonatal intensive care -- Moral and ethical aspects. Newborn infants -- Care -- Moral and ethical aspects. Newborn infants -- Diseases -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical ethics. Intensive Care, Neonatal -- ethics. Disabled Persons. Infant, Newborn, Diseases. Infant, Newborn. Intensive Care Units, Neonatal -- ethics. LC no. 2006021841 ISBN 1933102268 alkaline paper 9781933102269 alkaline paper

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