Compelled Compassion: Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns.

The Baby Doe incident of 1982 spurred the federal government to create a public policy making failure to treat severely disabled newborns a form of child neglect. This book focuses on public policy aspects of withholding treatment from critically ill disabled infants and especially deals with why this policy was enacted and how it affects health care workers, the infants...

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