This article summarizes and reviews the literature on neonaticide, infanticide, and filicide. A
literature review was conducted using the Medline database: the cue terms neonaticide …

The economic significance of a patent depends on its scope: the broader the scope, the
larger the number of competing products and processes that will infringe the patent. Many …

Intensive care medicine today is as close to the miraculous as most of us are likely to see in
our lifetime. Nowhere is this magic more effectively practiced than in neonatal nurseries …

A newborn infant with a seriously defective heart lies in the intensive care unit of a California
hospital, its life dependent on the slim possibility that a suitable donor heart can be found for …

The changing place of children in our society has had a significant impact on the legal
relationship between parent and child. Although parents previously enjoyed great latitude in …

Infant Doe was born in Bloomington, Indiana, on April 9, 1982'with two congenital
anomalies, 2 Down's syndrome3 and esophageal atresia with tracheoesophageal fistula. 4 …

T he dilemma surround-ing the issue of infanticide of severely defec-tive infants has arisen
because of medical advances over the past quarter century or so which allow physicians to …

Every child which is born into this world shall be reared, baptized, and carried to the church
except that... which is born so deformed that the mother cannot give strength to it.... It shall be …

There has been a recent proliferation in the number of non-heart-beating donor protocols in
Europe and the United States, currently for generating kidneys and livers for transplantation …

We intuitively think and talk about health care as a human right. Moreover, we tend to talk
about health in the language of basic rights or human rights without a clear sense of what …