For the Sake of the Children: The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home

by Carol A. Heimer and Lisa R. Staffen

For the Sake of the Children examines the social organization of responsibility by asking who takes responsibility for critically ill newborns. Drawing on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff, the authors take us into two neonatal intensive care units, showing us the traumas of extreme medical measures and the sufferings of infants. The accounts are by turns heroic and disturbing as we see people trying to take charge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226325059
• ISBN13: 9780226325057
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"