Download Life and Death in the Nursery: New England Monthly, July 1985 AudioBook Free
The issue of how and whether faulty newborns are treated is rarely new; Plato and Aristotle both resolved the subject. But the moral questions about treatment are regularly being recast by innovations in medical knowledge and technology. Since neonatology is such a new field, there is often more than one way to proceed, even in such relatively noncontroversial areas as prescribing medications. And with such little, voiceless patients, the doubt of medical prognosis is acutely noticed. In "Life and Death in the Nursery", Anita Diamant, the New York Times best-selling author of The Red Tent and The Boston Girl, says the powerful, heartbreaking history of Carol and Phil Power, whose kid Whit was born with a life-threatening congenital disorder, and the doctors and nurses who try to save him and thousands of newborns each year. As right-to-life fervor swept the united states in the wake of the 1982 Baby Doe circumstance, Diamant will take listeners inside Boston's Children Hospital at the level of the question over infant treatment. "Life and Death in the Nursery" was originally shared in New Great britain Regular, July 1985.
