"Who Should Survive?: One of the Choices on Our Conscience": Mental retardation and the history of contemporary bioethics

Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 205-224

  Antommaria, Armand Matheny ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOETHICS; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; CHILD; CHILD ADVOCACY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLERGY; COMORBIDITY; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; DOWN SYNDROME; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HISTORY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTESTINE ATRESIA; JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL (BALTIMORE, MD); MASS MEDIUM; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NEWBORN; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; SOCIAL CHANGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL (BALTIMORE, MD);

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIOETHICS; CHILD; CHILD ADVOCACY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLERGY; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; DOWN SYNDROME; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOME NURSING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTESTINAL ATRESIA; MASS MEDIA; MENTAL RETARDATION; MOTION PICTURES; PARENTS; PHYSICIANS; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL CHANGE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 33750291692     PISSN: 10546863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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