This commentary suggests the potential criminal liability physicians and parents may face
when deciding to withhold ordinary medical treatment necessary to sustain the life of a …

Amazing technological and engineering advances in the field of medicine are responsible
for the outburst of literature and litigation concerning euthanasia. It is possible today for life …

It is not only the Christian or other theist religions which raise their voices against relaxing
laws against euthanasia. Many humanists, concerned with the future of mankind, express …

Mr. Horan, a Chicago attorney, specializes in the law which concerns the patient-physician
relationship. He teaches medical-legal law at the University of Chicago Graduate School in …

The Medicolegal Library is the first and only series of its kind. Its importance is self-evident.
During the last decade, science, especial ly medical practice, has become an increasingly …

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 …

Despite tremendous advances in medical care for critically ill newborn infants, caregivers in
neonatal intensive care units still struggle with how to approach those patients whose …

The incidence of mortality in low birth weight newborns is severe. A study undertaken in the
early 1960s at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children revealed that the low birth weight …