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 …

Dominic Wilkinson's highly analytic attempt to shift the norm for permissible withdrawal of life
support of profoundly disabled newborns from one in which life support may be withdrawn “if …

Over the past decade neonatal intensive care nurseries have re volutionized the care of
premature and sick newborns. They have also been a focal point of ethical argument. For as …

This timely book offers much to readers of any discipline who want to explore the agonizing
dilemmas that surround the birth of a handicapped infant. It powerfully presents historical …

Pellegrino and David C. Thomasma," The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 56: No. 2, Article 12.
Available at: http://epublications. marquette. edu/lnq/vol56/iss2/12 part distinguishes the …

In the last three decades, advances in science and medical technology have dramatically
increased the physician's ability to sustain the lives of newborn infants.'At hospitals …

Among his quite da Vincian range of capabilities and personae, Michael Kirby has been one
of the main energizers of bioethical discussions in Australia over the last twenty years. The …

This paper asks for legislation that will remove criminal sanctions from good faith decisions
by parents and physicians to allow severely defective newborns to die. In so doing it …

The contemporary moral philosopher Peter Singer (2017; Singer and Kuhse, 2002) has
addressed the ethics surrounding medical infanticide within developed countries. Singer …

Brain death1 is a thoroughly modern concept. 2 Not until the 1960's did it come into common
parlance. It was the child of advances in resuscitative techniques, including chiefly the …