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Each year, neonatal Intensive care units (NICUs) in the U.S. and
around the world help thousands of sick or premature newborns
survive. NICUs are committed to the ideals of family-centered care,
which encourages shared decision-making between parents and NICU
caregivers. In cases of infants with conditions marked by high
mortality, morbidity, or great suffering, family-centered care
affirms the right of parents to assist in making decisions
regarding aggressive treatment for their infant. Often, these
parents' difficult and intimate decisions are shaped profoundly by
their religious beliefs. In light of this, what precisely are the
teachings of the major world religious traditions about the status
and care of the premature or sick newborn? Few studies have
grappled with what major religious traditions teach about the care
of the newborn or how these teachings may bear on parents'
decisions. This volume seeks to fill this gap, providing
information on religious teachings about the newborn to the
multidisciplinary teams of NICU professionals (neonatologists,
advance practice nurses, social workers), as well as to parents of
NICU patients, and students of bioethics. In chapters dealing with
Judaism, Catholicism, Denominational Protestantism, Evangelical
Protestantism, African American Protestantism, Sunni and Shi'a
Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Navajo religion, and Seventh Day
Adventism, leading scholars develop the teachings of these
traditions on the status, treatment, and ritual accompaniments of
care of the premature or sick newborn. This is an essential book
that will serve as a first resort for clinicians who need to
understand the religious dynamics influencing anyone making a
difficult decision about her sick newborn.
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