From the johns hopkins baby to baby miller: What have we learned from four decades of reflection on neonatal cases?

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 207-214

  Paris, John J ^a   Ferranti, Jeffrey ^b   Reardon, Frank ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Hassan and Reardon   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHILD ADVOCACY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COST OF ILLNESS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMED CONSENT; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENT; PARENTAL CONSENT; PASSIVE EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; LEGAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ABNORMALITIES; CANADA; CHILD ADVOCACY; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, CLINICAL; EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MORALS; PARENTAL CONSENT; PARENTS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; THIRD-PARTY CONSENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0035467984     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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