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Which Babies Shall Live? - Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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Which Babies Shall Live? - Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten tion of
the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful
interest groups. For the most part, the debate has been cast in the
narrowest possible terms: "discrimination against the handicapped";
"physician authority"; "family autonomy." We believe that something
much more profound is happening: the debate over the care of sick
and dying babies appears to be both a manifestation of great
changes in our feelings about infants, children, and families, and
a reflection of deep and abiding attitudes toward the newborn, the
handi capped, and perhaps other humans who are "less than" nor mal,
rational adults. How could we cast some light on those feelings and
attitudes that seemed to determine silently the course of the
public debate? We chose to enlist the humanities-the dis players
and critics of our cultural forms. Rather than closing down the
public discussion, we wanted to open it up, to illuminate it with
the light of history, religion, philosophy, literature,
jurisprudence, and humanistically oriented sociol ogy. This book is
a first effort to place the hotly contested Baby Doe debate into a
broader cultural context."
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