Neonatal bioethics; the moral challenges of medical innovation. (reprint, 2006).

9780801890895

Neonatal bioethics; the moral challenges of medical innovation. (reprint, 2006)

Lantos, John D. and William L. Meadow.

Johns Hopkins U. Press

2008

177 pages

$25.00

Paperback

RJ253

Reprint of Lantos and Meadow's (pediatrics, U. of Chicago) 2006 text examining the creation and development of the field of neonatology and neonatal intensive care units (NCIUs), as seen within the broader relationship between scientific progress, medical innovation, economics, bioethical reflection, and political regulation. The text describes the iterative, nonlinear, and, sometimes, heated process by which the answers to moral, legal, economic, and political questions have evolved in neonatology over three eras--the technological innovations and individualism during the 1960s to early 1980s, the period of "exposed ignorance" from 1982-1992, and the slowing of medical progress experienced from 1992 to the present--a process that has involved multiple stakeholders and constituencies. The text offers scientists, clinicians, ethicists, legislators, and regulators broad implications and insights for all of medicine. Academic but accessible to the general reader.

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