Religion and Ethics in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Ronald M. Green is Emeritus Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth College. He is a member of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine. In 1996 and 1997, Professor Green was the founding director of the Office of Genome Ethics at the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice (Yale University Press, 2007), and Suffering and Bioethics (co-edited with Nathan Palpant, Oxford University Press, 2014). In 2005, Professor Green was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.George A. Little is Active Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He completed his clinical training in Pediatrics at the University of Vermont and in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at the University of Colorado. He is aFellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is emeritus Department Chair of Maternal and Child Medicine at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. He was awarded the Virginia Apgar Award of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

• IntroductionChapter 1: Judaism and NeonatologyChapter 2: Catholicism and the Neonatal ContextChapter 3: Reading Tragedy Through the Christian Story: An Anabaptist PerspectiveChapter 4: Spirituality in a Time of Crisis: A Protestant Christian PerspectiveChapter 5: Muslim Biomedical Ethics of Neonatal Care: Theory, Praxis, and AuthorityChapter 6: A Muslim Neonatologist in a Canadian NICUChapter 7: Shiva's Babies: Hindu Perspectives on the Treatment of High-Risk Newborn InfantsChapter 8: Life Before Birth: Buddhist Perspectives on Neonatal CareChapter 9: How Age-Old Cultural Tenets Complicate the Care of Premature or Sick Navajo NewbornsChapter 10: Moral Status and Care of Impaired Newborns: An African-American Protestant PerspectiveChapter 11: Seventh-Day Adventists and Care for the NewbornAfterword

Overall this is a well written, fascinating and useful book.