Playing God in the Nursery
“The power of Lyon’s book is that he has successfully returned the issue of newborn intensive care from the political or ethical to the profoundly, disturbingly personal. . . . A moving, impressive book.” —Robin Marantz Henig, Washington Post

In Bloomington, Indiana, an infant with serious birth defects is allowed to die without surgery. In Long Island, New York, the White House tries to stop Baby Jane Doe from suffering a similar fate. Thousands of handicapped babies are born each year. Should all of their lives be saved? What if the child were your own. . .
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Playing God in the Nursery
“The power of Lyon’s book is that he has successfully returned the issue of newborn intensive care from the political or ethical to the profoundly, disturbingly personal. . . . A moving, impressive book.” —Robin Marantz Henig, Washington Post

In Bloomington, Indiana, an infant with serious birth defects is allowed to die without surgery. In Long Island, New York, the White House tries to stop Baby Jane Doe from suffering a similar fate. Thousands of handicapped babies are born each year. Should all of their lives be saved? What if the child were your own. . .
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Playing God in the Nursery

Playing God in the Nursery

by Jeff Lyon
Playing God in the Nursery

Playing God in the Nursery

by Jeff Lyon

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“The power of Lyon’s book is that he has successfully returned the issue of newborn intensive care from the political or ethical to the profoundly, disturbingly personal. . . . A moving, impressive book.” —Robin Marantz Henig, Washington Post

In Bloomington, Indiana, an infant with serious birth defects is allowed to die without surgery. In Long Island, New York, the White House tries to stop Baby Jane Doe from suffering a similar fate. Thousands of handicapped babies are born each year. Should all of their lives be saved? What if the child were your own. . .

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393303094
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date: 10/17/1986
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jeff Lyon and Peter Gorner, recipients of the Pulitzer Prize for Journalism in 1987 for the stories on which Altered Fates was based, write for the Chicago Tribune. They live in Chicago.
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