Ethics and Perinatology

• Covers a key topic from both clinicians and bioethicist's perspectives.
• Offers excellent coverage, through a broad range of contributors, to differing views around the world.
• Examines current controversies in a wide variety of topics.

Readership: Obstetricians, neonatologists, perinatologists, medical ethicists, legal theorists, economists, medical students, junior doctors.

Edited by Amnon Goldworth, Professor of Philosophy, San José State University; Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, Palo Alto, California, the late William Silverman, formerly Professor of Pediatrics, Columbia University, USA, David K. Stevenson, Harold K. Faber Professor of Pediatrics; Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Chief, Division of Neonatal and Developmental Medicine; Director of Nurseries, Stanford University School of Medicine, California, and Ernlé W.D. Young, Clinical Professor in Pediatric Medicine (Ethics); Co-Director, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, Palo Alto, California

"The complicated ethics of neonatal care, to my knowledge, have rarely been fully examined in one volume. The excellent collection of essays in Ethics and Perinatology makes hard but rewarding reading. I began reading this book hoping that it would be a resource to any of us who work either teaching ethics or in a neonatal unit where difficult decisions have to be faced and made. For both of these settings it is invaluable." - Ian Ainsworth-Smith, British Medical Journal, Volume 310, June 1995

"important new book ... so free of technical jargon that it could also be used as a text for undergraduate students or even lay audiences ... This will prove a useful text particularly for those with the responsibility of introducing health care professional students, particularly residents, fellows, and advanced-practice nurses, to the complex ethical issues they will confront in providing perinatal care." - Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal

"a valuable discourse on the principles and practices that may influence our decision making processes ... for those who are faced with ethical problems in perinatal practice, the time taken to read this volume should prove worthwhile" - Margaret B. McNay, British Journal of Obstetrics, October 1995, Vol. 102

"The excellent collection of essays in Ethics and Perinatology makes hard but rewarding reading. I began reading this book hoping that it would be a resource to any of us who work either teaching ethics or in a neonatal unit where difficult decisions have to be faced and made. For both of these settings it is invaluable." - Ian Ainsworth-Smith, British Medical Journal, June 1995

"This is an immensely satisfying book which meets a pressing need for balanced, in-depth discussion of the many difficult issues confronting those whose work is involved with the unborn, the new-born and their families...It does not come up with simple ansers but it does look deeply at the problems as well as the progress, and helps us all to work through our own position on difficult questions...the whole book is immensely valuable to all with an interest in ethics and technology at the edges of life." - Dorothy A Whyte Ethics & Medicine 1998 14.2