First published in 1985. Medical ethics is a vitally important subject and currently a highly
controversial one. Recent cases have highlighted both the intellectual and moral challenges …

In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care
units, Renée Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national …

Open spina bifida (open SB) is the most complex congenital abnormality of the central
nervous system compatible with long-term survival. Multidisciplinary care is required to …

Ethical and legal issues concerning physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are very
much on the public agenda in many jurisdictions. In this timely book LW Sumner addresses …

The concept of quality of life emerged in the 1970s as an important new outcome for health
care. This paper identifies three independent arenas in which quality of life served as a …

An account of many aspects of medical practice and the law. Dealing with such controversial
areas as genetic engineering, fetal rights, transplantation, euthanasia, artificial reproduction …

The optimal management of patients with myelomeningocele and hydrocephalus is
facilitated by a constant review of the patients with the aid of the sonogram and CT scan. Six …

This collection of essays is concerned with disabled people's right to life in its wider sense:
the right not only to life, but to a life that is not intolerable, a life worth living and all that that …

The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American public agenda. Already
legal in five states, it is the subject of intense public opinion battles across the country …

Nontreatment of anomalous newborns is nothing new. In earlier times, nothing could be
done for infants who were premature or injured at birth, or who had genetic defects; they …