Selective Nontreatment of Handicapped Newborns: Moral Dilemmas in Neonatal Medicine

by Robert F. Weir

Book Overview

This important and timely book addresses one of the most complex issues in biomedical ethics: whether, and under what circumstances, life-prolonging treatment may be withheld from severely handicapped infants.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195048814
• ISBN13: 9780195048810
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"