Compelled compassion : government intervention in the treatment of critically ill newborns / edited by Arthur L. Caplan, Robert H. Blank, and Janna C. Merrick.

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [1992], ©1992.

xi, 336 pages ; 24 cm.

Life-and-death decisions in the midst of uncertainty / Robert F. Weir -- Conflict, compromise, and symbolism : the politics of the Baby Doe debate / Janna C. Merrick -- A legal analysis of the child abuse amendments of 1984 / James Bopp, Mary Nimz -- Hard cases make bad law : the legacy of the Baby Doe controversy / Arthur L. Caplan -- Parental perspectives on treatment-nontreatment decisions involving newborns with spina bifida / Patricia A. Barber, Janet G. Marquis, H. Rutherford Turnbull III -- Rationing medicine in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) / Robert H. Blank -- Baby Doe and me : a personal journey / Anthony Shaw.

Baby Doe and forgoing life-sustaining treatment : compassion, discrimination, or medical neglect? / A. G. M. Campbell -- Neonatologists, pediatricians, and the Supreme Court criticize the "Baby Doe" regulations / Loretta M. Kopelman, Arthur E. Kopelman, Thomas G. Irons -- The impact of the child abuse amendments on nursing staff and their care of handicapped newborns / Joy Hinson Penticuff -- Infant care review committees in the aftermath of Baby Doe / Norman Fost -- Decision making in the neonatal intensive care unit : the impact of the 1984 child abuse amendments / Terry Walman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.