Mixed Blessings: Intensive Care for Newborns

by Jeanne Harley Guillemin and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom

Book Overview

In just a decade's time, intensive medical care for newborns has changed from an experimental venture to a widespread and often controversial hospital service. The cost of newborn intensive care ranks among the top three medical expenses in this country, and while the legal and ethical issues of treating critically ill infants parallel those of adult patients, even more troublesome is the issue of family versus physician control of hospital technology...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195040325
• ISBN13: 9780195040326
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"