Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery

by Renee R. Anspach

Book Overview

In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Ren e Anspach explores the life-and-death dilemmas that have fueled national debate. Using case studies taken during sixteen months of extensive interviewing and observation, Anspach examines the roles of parents, doctors, nurses, and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns--be they premature, terminally ill, or severely malformed--should...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520212134
• ISBN13: 9780520212138
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Extremely interesting and readable

This is very informative, and thought-provoking, and fulfills the intent of it's title. As a nurse and a parent, I realize the ambivalency felt by those who are involved with a baby needing intensive care. It will help those who have never been there understand just what a baby experiences in the Intensive-Care Nursery. Keep in mind though that this book was published in 1993, and it's statistics are not up-to-date.