Objectives To summarize the literature on mortality rates and prevalences of major
neurodevelopmental disabilities and to examine trends of these outcomes over time in …

Background The ethical issue of foregoing life-sustaining treatment for newborn infants at
high risk of death or severe disability is extensively debated, but there is little information on …

ContextThe ethical issues surrounding end-of-life decision making for infants with adverse
prognoses are controversial. Little empirical evidence is available on the attitudes and …

Objective: To compare treatment choices of neonatal physicians and nurses in 11 European
countries for a hypothetical case of extreme prematurity (24 weeks' gestational age, birth …

Despite the success of newborn intensive care, a vexing ethical question remains: Which
preterm infants are so malformed, sick, or immature that newborn intensive care should not …

Parents at risk of delivering a baby at the threshold of viability are faced with a critical
decision. When a child is born between 23 and 25 weeks of gestation, parents are asked to …

Relatively little consideration has heretofore been given to the interaction between Western
clinical research ethics and non-Western ethical expectations. How should any conflict that …

Neonatal intensive care has been studied from an epidemiological, ethical, medical and
even sociological perspective, but little is known about the impact of parental involvement in …

AIM To compare neonatal intensive care unit policies towards parents' visiting, information,
and participation in ethical decisions across eight European countries. METHODS One …

In this important collection, prominent scholars who helped to establish medical
anthropology as an area of study reflect on the field's past, present, and future. In doing so …