Before Their Time: Fetuses and Infants at Risk.

Before Their Time: Fetuses and Infants at Risk

Cohen, L. Before Their Time: Fetuses and Infants at Risk. Washington, D.C.: American Association on Mental Retardation, 1990.

This book warns of complex problems that lie ahead with the startling advantages that new technology will bring. The greatest contribution of the book is to peel away the obfuscation that covers the ethical controversies with which society must come to grips. Although medical ethics is an old and sophisticated field, current issues have risen to the top of the national agenda, i.e., right to life, right to choose, neonatal intensive care, organ and tissue waiting lists (who gets on and whose organs...