Ethical Dilemmas for Critically Ill Babies
Most neonates who now survive intensive care would have died 50 years ago, and “nature” would have decided the outcomes, making ethical discussions about initiating or withholding resuscitation irrelevant. Medical developments in neonatology have changed
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Eduard Verhagen Annie Janvier Editors
Ethical Dilemmas for Critically Ill Babies
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine Volume 65
Series editor David N. Weisstub University of Montreal Fac. Medicine, Montreal, Québec, Canada
The book series International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine comprises volumes with an international and interdisciplinary focus. The aim of the Series is to publish books on foundational issues in (bio) ethics, law, international health care and medicine. The 28 volumes that have already appeared in this series address aspects of aging, mental health, AIDS, preventive medicine, bioethics and many other current topics. This Series was conceived against the background of increasing globalization and interdependency of the world’s cultures and governments, with mutual influencing occurring throughout the world in all fields, most surely in health care and its delivery. By means of this Series we aim to contribute and cooperate to meet the challenge of our time: how to aim human technology to good human ends, how to deal with changed values in the areas of religion, society, culture and the self-definition of human persons, and how to formulate a new way of thinking, a new ethic. We welcome book proposals representing the broad interest of the interdisciplinary and international focus of the series. We especially welcome proposals that address aspects of ‘new medicine’, meaning advances in research and clinical health care, with an emphasis on those interventions and alterations that force us to re-examine foundational issues.
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The Brocher Foundation mission is to encourage a research on the ethical, legal and social implications of new medical technologies. Its main activities are to host visiting researchers and to organize symposia, workshops and summer academies. More information on the Brocher Foundation program is available at www.brocher.ch.
Editors Eduard Verhagen Beatrix Children’s Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen University of Groningen Groningen The Netherlands
Annie Janvier Department of Pediatrics and Clinical Ethics University of Montreal Montreal Canada
ISSN 1567-8008 ISSN 2351-955X (electronic) International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine ISBN 978-94-017-7359-1 ISBN 978-94-017-7360-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-7360-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015947933 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by simil
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