Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making Bhatia Neera Deakin University School of Law Australia Paperback
Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making Bhatia Neera Deakin University School of Law Australia Paperback Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are…
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Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making Bhatia Neera Deakin University School of Law Australia Paperback
Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious, and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the judiciary. Neera Bhatia explores decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment from critically impaired infants and addresses the controversial question, which lives are too expensive to treat? This issue is exacerbated when the patient is unable to exercise autonomy and is entirely dependent on the will of others.This book focuses on the legal and ethical complexities surrounding end of life decisions for critically impaired and extremely premature infants.
Bringing to bear such key issues as clinical guidance, public awareness, and resource allocation, the book provides a rational approach to end of life decision making, where decisions to withdraw or withhold treatment may trump other competing interests.