Deciding Who Lives - Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery

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List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

An exploration of everyday choices in neonatal intensive care units, which looks at the life-and-death dilemmma. Using case studies, Anspach examines the role of parents, doctors, nurses and bioethicists in deciding whether critically ill newborns should be saved by medical technology.

Product details

• Authors: Renee R. Anspach, Anspach Renee R.
• Assisted by: Renee R. Anspach (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.12.1997
• EAN: 9780520212138
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21213-8
• No. of pages: 303
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; MEDICAL / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / People with Disabilities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Disability: social aspects, Child welfare, Child welfare and youth services, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct