Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-care Nursery
In this powerful and probing look at the reality of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, Renée 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 be saved by medical technology, or at least kept alive a little longer. |
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List of figures and tables |
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Acknowledgments |
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Ch.1. Introduction: the dilemmas and their dimensions |
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Ch.2. Theorizing about life-and-death decisions: a critical review |
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Ch.3. Predicting the future: why physicians and nurses disagree |
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Ch.4. Producing assent: parents, professionals, and life-and-death decisions |
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Ch.5. Diffusing dissent: parents, professionals, and conflict in decisions |
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Ch.6. Beyond the nursery: life-and-death decisions and paradoxes in public policy |
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Appendix1. Field research and the sociology of (sociological) knowledge |
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Appendix2. Interviewing |
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Notes |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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