Changing ethical issues in the treatment of spina bifida: A personal odyssey
✍ Scribed by Freeman, John M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1080-4013
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The ethical issues to be considered when assisting a family in making decisions about a child with spina bifida have varied in different geographical locations and over the past decades. Although now, in the United States, most infants are detected in utero and most detected pregnancies are terminated, the process by which such decisions should be made rarely seems to meet the standards of a good decision-making process. The small numbers of infants born with spina bifida require careful decision-making by the physicianparent-healthcare team. These decisions must be made in light of conflicting interpretations of current health care regulations and court rulings.
1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.