Deciding for imperilled newborns: medical authority or parental autonomy?
The ethical issues around decision making on behalf of infants have been illuminated by two empirical research studies carried out in Scotland. In-depth interviews with 176 medical and nursing staff and with 108 parents of babies for whom there was discussion of treatment withholding/withdrawal, gen...
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BMJ Publ.
2001
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2001, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 104-109 |
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