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Compelled Compassion - Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
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Compelled Compassion - Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with
Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable,
esophagus. His parents refused to consent to surgery or intravenous
feeding. The hospital unsuccessfully sought a court order to force
treatment, and appeals to higher courts also failed. The child,
identified as Baby Doe by the news media, subsequently died. The
events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by the Reagan
administration, the courts, and Congress that culminated in a
federal policy that makes failure to treat newborns with
disabilities a form of child neglect. This book centers on the
public policy aspects of withholding treatment from critically ill
newborns who are disabled. Specifically, it deals with why the
policy was enacted and what impact it has had on health care
workers, families, and infants. Some of the contributors to this
book spearheaded the early debate on withholding treatment. Anthony
Shaw's New York Times Magazine article in 1972 was the first to
address these issues in the popular press. The following year, he
published a related article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Also appearing in this same issue of NEJM, was the pathbreaking
study, coauthored by A. G. M. Campbell, on withholding treatment in
the special care nursery at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Each of these
articles promoted much public and professional discussion.
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