Using a new analysis of the best interests standard to address cultural disputes: Whose data, which values?

Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 373-391

  Kopelman, Loretta M ^a   Kopelman, Arthur E ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Best interests; Culture; Ethics; Incompetent; Law; Neonatal intensive care unit; Premature infant; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PROGNOSIS; RELIGION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; CHILD ADVOCACY; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSONS; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ETHICAL RELATIVISM; ETHICAL THEORY; ETHICS, CLINICAL; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; NEONATOLOGY; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 36749041464     PISSN: 13867415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-007-9050-0     Document Type: Article

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