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Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation
John D. Lantos
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Description for Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 192 pages, 18, 9 black & white line drawings, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MJWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation. 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 ... Read more
Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. This study examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801890895
SKU
V9780801890895
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About John D. Lantos
John D. Lantos, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago and holds the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City. He is the author of The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001). William L. Meadow, M.D., Ph.D., is a board-certified ... Read more
Reviews for Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation
With neonatology as a case study, they take us well beyond the confines of this new field to examine broader issues in medical innovation... Insightful and thought provoking.
John W. Sparks, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine 2007 An engaging history and philosophical analysis... A clearly written reflection that has broad implications and insights for all of medicine.
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John W. Sparks, M.D. New England Journal of Medicine 2007 An engaging history and philosophical analysis... A clearly written reflection that has broad implications and insights for all of medicine.
... Read more