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15 - Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining intervention from neonates

from Section 2 - Ethical issues at the beginning of life: perinatology and neonatology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2011

By
Andrew C. Beckstrom  and
David E. Woodrum
Edited by
Douglas S. Diekema ,
Mark R. Mercurio  and
Mary B. Adam
Douglas S. Diekema
Affiliation:
Seattle Children's Research Institute
Mark R. Mercurio
Affiliation:
Yale University School of Medicine
Mary B. Adam
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, University of Arizona School of Medicine, Tucson
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Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics
A Case-Based Textbook
 , pp. 83 - 88
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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