Baby Owens: When Medical Professionals and Parents Clash
Number of pages:
4
ABSTRACT:
A 4 page examination of the ethics and law surrounding an infant diagnoses with Downs
Syndrome and duodenal atresia. The baby needed medical intervention to survive. The baby's parents, however, refused treatment on the basis of
their religious beliefs. The parents were Jehovas' Witnesses and believed that medical interventions such as blood transfusions were prohibited by
the Bible itself. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: AM2_PPmedRf2.rtf
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