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Born to Die?: Deciding the Fate of Critically Ill Newborns
(1986)
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Argues that is is not a moral crime to let severely defective newborns die naturally and that parents, not legal authorities, should make the ultimate decision.
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Autonomy gone awry: A cross-cultural study of parents' experiences in neonatal intensive care units.Kristina Orfali & Elisa Gordon - 2004 - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 25 (4):329-365.
Limits of neonatal treatment: a survey of attitudes in the Danish population.M. Norup - 1998 - Journal of Medical Ethics 24 (3):200-206.
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