Deciding Who Lives
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Author_Renee R. Anspach
babies
bioethics
case study
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conflict
doctors
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ethical decisions
everyday choices
field research
ill newborns
intensive care nursery
life and death
medical care
medical debates
medical ethics
medical sociology
medical technology
medicine
morality
national debate
neonatal intensive care units
newborns
nurses
parents
pediatric care
physicians
premature babies
public policy
severely malformed babies
sociological knowledge
sociology
terminally ill babies
Product details
- ISBN 9780520212138
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Dec 1997
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renee Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses, and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns--be they premature, terminally ill, or severely malformed--should be saved by medical technology, or at least kept alive a little longer.
Renee R. Anspach is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.
