Response to “Giving ‘Moral Distress' a Voice: Ethical Concerns Among Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Personnel” by Pam Hefferman and Steve Heilig and “Neonatal Viability in the 1990s: Held Hostage by Technology” by Jonathan Muraskas et al. (CQ Vol 8, No 2)

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 400-403

  Catlin, Anita J ^a   Carter, Brian S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NOTE; RESUSCITATION; STANDARD; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

ETHICS, NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MORALS; RESUSCITATION; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0034198815     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180100003121     Document Type: Article

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