Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation

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Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Overview and Introduction 1 2 Some Facts about Infant Mortality and Neonatal Care 13 3 The Era of Innovation and Individualism, 1965–1982 18 4 The Era of Exposed Ignorance, 1982–1992 53 5 The End of Medical Progress, 1992 to the Present 85 6 Economics of the NICU 122 7 Four Discarded Moral Choices 136 8 The Possibility of Moral Progress 150 Notes 15 Index 173 This page intentionally left blank ...