A legal challenge to the refusal to provide inappropriate treatment: the case of Baby K

Clin Ethics Rep. 1994 Spring;8(1):1-8.
No abstract available

MeSH terms

  • Anencephaly
  • Civil Rights
  • Decision Making*
  • Disabled Persons
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Euthanasia, Passive*
  • Federal Government
  • Government
  • Government Regulation
  • Hospitals
  • Humans
  • Infant*
  • Judicial Role
  • Jurisprudence*
  • Life Support Care*
  • Medical Futility*
  • Mothers
  • Patient Transfer
  • Physicians
  • Prejudice
  • Refusal to Treat
  • Social Control, Formal
  • United States
  • Ventilators, Mechanical*
  • Virginia
  • Withholding Treatment