Deciding Who Lives - Fateful Choices in the Intensive Care Nursery (Paper)

1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-520-21213-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anspach, Renee R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction:

The Dilemmas and Their Dimensions 

Chapter 2. Theorizing About Life-and-Death Decisions:

A Critical Review 

Chapter 3. Predicting the Future:

Why Physicians and Nurses Disagree 

Chapter 4. Producing Assent:

Parents, Professionals,
and Life-and-Death Decisions 

Chapter 5. Diffusing Dissent:

Parents, Professionals,
and Conflict in Decisions 

Chapter 6. Beyond the Nursery:

Life-and-Death Decisions
and Paradoxes in Public Policy 

Appendix 1. Field Research and the Sociology of
(Sociological) Knowledge

Appendix 2. Interviewing
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Renée R. Anspach is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan.