Neonatal Bioethics The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation

Neonatal intensive care has been one of the most morally controversial areas of medicine during the past thirty years. Neonatal Bioethics examines the interconnected development of four key aspects of neonatal intensive care: medical advances, ethical analysis, legal scrutiny, and econometric evaluation."An engaging history and philosophical analysis... A clearly written reflection that has broad implications and insights for all of medicine." -- JAMA"With neonatology as a case study, they take us well beyond the confines of this new field to examine broader issues in medical innovation... Insightful and thought provoking." -- New England Journal of Medicine"Recounting the concise history of modern neonatology and the evolution of its attendant ethical questions, John Lantos -- a recognized ethicist and pediatrician -- and William Meadow -- an experienced neonatologist -- give us a lens through which many in neonatology may engage in a self-examination of their own history, practice, and specialty. But more than a historical recounting, this book brings the reader to an awareness of the integral relationships between applied science and medical innovation, clinical advances in patient care, social values, public policy, economics and clinical ethics." -- Journal of PerinatologyJohn D. Lantos, M.D., is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Chicago and holds the John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City. He is the author of The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care, also published by Johns Hopkins. William L. Meadow, M.D., Ph.D., is a board-certified neonatologist with twenty-five years of experience in neonatal intensive care and a professor of pediatrics and medicine and co-chief of neonatology at the University of Chicago.Lantos, John D. is the author of 'Neonatal Bioethics The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation', published 2006 under ISBN 9780801883446 and ISBN 080188344X.