A Life Worth Giving? The Threshold for Permissible Withdrawal of Life Support From Disabled Newborn Infants

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 20-32

  Wilkinson, Dominic James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disabled children; Medical ethics; Neonatal intensive care; Newborn infant; Quality of life; Withholding treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSON; ETHICS; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MORALITY; NEWBORN; PARENT; PHYSICIAN; POLITICS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORAL OBLIGATIONS; PARENTS; PHYSICIANS; POLITICS; PREJUDICE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; UNCERTAINTY; VALUE OF LIFE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 79951800953     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2010.540060     Document Type: Article

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