Deciding Who Lives Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery

Name: Deciding Who Lives Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery
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ISBN: 9780520212138

ISBN-10: 0520212134

ISBN-13: 9780520212138

Edition: 1993

Authors: Renee R. Anspach

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In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Reneacute;e 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.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 12/5/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 303
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Figures and Tables


Acknowledgments



Introduction: The Dilemmas and Their Dimensions



Theorizing About Life-and-Death Decisions: A Critical Review



Predicting the Future: Why Physicians and Nurses Disagree



Producing Assent: Parents, Professionals, and Life-and-Death Decisions



Diffusing Dissent: Parents, Professionals, and Conflict in Decisions



Beyond the Nursery: Life-and-Death Decisions and Paradoxes in Public Policy


Appendix 1. Field Research and the Sociology of (Sociological) Knowledge


Appendix 2. Interviewing


Notes


Bibliography


Index