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Saving very premature babies : key ethical issues / Pauline Challinor Mifflin.
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Title:Saving very premature babies : key ethical issues / Pauline Challinor Mifflin.
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Author/Creator:Mifflin, Pauline Challinor.
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Published/Created:Edinburgh ; New York : Books for Midwives, ©2003.
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: WS410 .M633 2003
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects: Premature infants.
Neonatology--Moral and ethical aspects.
Neonatal intensive care--Moral and ethical aspects.
Life and death, Power over.
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Medical Subjects:Infant, Premature.
Intensive Care, Neonatal--ethics.
Neonatology--ethics.
Value of Life.
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Description:246 pages.
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Summary:"This is a book about medical ethics, specifically concerned with the way in which modern technology is used to save babies born before 24 weeks' gestation. The dilemmas faced by parents and health care professionals are rarely aired in open debate; this book attempts to confront these issues."--Jacket.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-241) and index.
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ISBN:0750654120
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Contents:1. Introduction
Pt. 1. impact of prematurity on the child and family
2. Background and context of neonatal intensive care
3. very premature baby: a profile
4. child and its family
5. Counselling and care: support for parents and staff
Pt. 2. legal and ethical framework
6. legal framework
7. ethical framework
Pt. 3. sanctity of life
8. value of life
9. Personhood
10. slippery slope argument
Pt. 4. Should the baby live?
11. Withholding and withdrawing treatment
12. Abortion, infanticide and neonaticide
13. Life and death decisions: who should make them?
Pt. 5. issue of justice and resources
14. impact on society of saving very premature babies
15. Conclusion.