Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making: Resource Allocation and Difficult Decisions (Biomedical Law and Ethics Library)

By: Neera Bhatia

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Synopsis: Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious, and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the judiciary. This issue is exacerbated when the patient is unable to exercise autonomy and is entirely dependent on the will of others. This book focuses on the legal and ethical complexities surrounding end of life decisions for critically impaired and extremely premature infants. Neera Bhatia explores decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment from critically impaired infants and addresses the controversial question, which lives are too expensive to treat? Bringing to bear such key issues as clinical guidance, public awareness, and resource allocation, the book provides a rational approach to end of life decision making, where decisions to withdraw or withhold treatment may trump other competing interests. The book will be of great interest and use to scholars and students of bioethics, medical law, and medical practitioners.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 222 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317573562
Related ISBNs:: 9781315738383, 9781138704770, 9781138704770, 9781138828483, 9781138828483, 9781138704770, 9781315738383, 9781138828483
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 02/14/20
Copyrighted By:: N/A
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Parenting and Family, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Medicine, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.