Mixed Blessings Intensive Care for Newborns

Name: Mixed Blessings Intensive Care for Newborns
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ISBN: 9780195040326

ISBN-10: 0195040325

ISBN-13: 9780195040326

Edition: 1986 (Reprint)

Authors: Jeanne Harley Guillemin, Lynda Lytle Holmstrom

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In just a decade's time, intensive medical care for newborns has changed from an experimental venture to a widespread and often controversial hospital service. The cost of newborn intensive care ranks among the top three medical expenses in this country, and while the legal and ethical issues of treating critically ill infants parallel those of adult patients, even more troublesome is the issue of family versus physician control of hospital technology. In this first inside account of the closed world of neonatal intensive care, two medical sociologists focus on the social context for medical decision making in the sensitive area of newborn life. Based on observations in the most…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/21/1986
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.56" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Introduction: Mixed Blessings
Professional Roles and Responsibilities
The Physicians
The Nursing Staff
The Social-Psychological Professionals
Clinical Decisions and the Patient's Career
Where Patients Come From: Referrals
The Sanctity of Newborn Life: Aggressive Intervention
Where Patients Go: Death and Survival
The Family: The Parents and Newborn Care
Darlene Bourne: The Patient as Social Problem
The National and International Context
The United States
International Comparisons
Policy Recommendations
Name Index
Subject Index
Glossary
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