Drs Kuhse and Singer have written a forthright and logically argued statement in support of
what has been called the'selective treatment'of severely disabled infants. Unlike many other …

Drs Kuhse and Singer have written a forthright and logically argued statement in support of
what has been called the'selective treatment'of severely disabled infants. Unlike many other …

The final and most compelling chapter,“Who Decides?”, looks at the potential conflict
between families, physicians, government, and laws. Drs. Singer and Kuhse make an …

Among those who have defended a policy of selective non-treatmentof defective newborns,
none have been as forceful or direct in stating and defending their views as have Duff and …

Kuhse and Singer's definition of a'person'is puzzling on two counts. The newborn do not
have'hopes and plans for the future', I agree, but neither do the profoundly mentally …

The main purpose of this paper (1) is to draw attention to a gap between the principles of
Common Law and the principles accepted by many leading medical practitioners on the …

Since 1973 the practice of infanticide for some severely handicapped newborns has been
receiving more open discussion and defence in the literature on medical ethics. A recent …

I agree with Dr. Kuhse and Prof. Singer on many points. It is of course ethically defensible to
decide sometimes that a seriously handicapped newborn baby may be better off dead, that …

This book was written by two non-medical authors, one of whom, Gustaitis, isa professionl
journalist and the other a chaplain and senior lecturer in medical ethics in the Stanford …

R McMillan, HR Engelhardt, S Spicker, editors, 313 pages, Netherlands,£ 42.75, Kluwer
Academic Publishing Group, 1987 This thought-provoking book is a collection of essays …