Playing God in the Nursery
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ISBN: 0393018989 / Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, February 1985
A prize-winning journalist examines the legal, social, moral, scientific, and economic implications of decisions to withhold treatment from severely handicapped newborns and surveys the attitudes of parents, doctors, nurses, bioethicists, as well as adults and children directly affected by the problem
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In Bloomington, Indiana, an infant with serious birth defects is allowed to die without surgery. In Long Island, New York, the White House tries to stop Baby Jane Doe from suffering a similar fate. Thousands of handicapped babies are born each year. Should all of their lives be saved? What if the child were your own. . .
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