Books about Sociology and Ethics

“Baby Doe,” by H. William Taeusch, Wheatmark, 2021. ISBN 1627878130.

“Breathe, Baby, Breathe!: Neonatal Intensive Care, Prematurity, and Complicated Pregnancies,” by Annie Janvier, University of Toronto Press, 2020. ISBN 1487523068.

“Religion and Ethics in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit,” by Ronald M. Green and George A. Little, Oxford University Press, 2019. ISBN 0190636858.

“Ethical Dilemmas for Critically Ill Babies,” by Eduard Verhagen and Annie Janvier, Springer, 2015. ISBN 9401773599.

“Neonatal Bioethics: The Moral Challenges of Medical Innovation,” by John D. Lantos and William L. Meadow, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. ISBN 9780801890895.

“The Lazarus Case: Life-and-Death Issues in Neonatal Intensive Care (Medicine and Culture),” by John D. Lantos, John Hopkins University Press, 2007. ISBN 0801887704.

“Extreme Prematurity: Practices, Bioethics and the Law,” by Geoffrey Miller, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521862213.

“To Treat or Not to Treat: The Ethical Methodology of Richard A. McCormick S.J., As Applied to Treatment Decisions for Handicapped Newborns,” by Peter A. Clark, Creighton University Press, 2003. ISBN 1881871444.

“When the Bough Breaks: Parental Perceptions of Ethical Decision-Making in NICU,” 2002, UPA. ISBN 0761823166.

“Newborn Medicine and Society,” by Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, Eakin Press, 1998. ISBN 1-57168-219-8.

“Where’s the Evidence? Debates in Modern Medicine,” by William A. Silverman, Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0-19-263088-1.

“Deciding Who Lives: Fateful Choices in the Intensive-Care Nursery,” by Renee R. Anspach, University of California Press, 1993. ISBN 0-520-05268-4.

“Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine,” by Albert R. Jonsen et al, McGraw-Hill Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-07-105392-1.

“To Treat Or Not To Treat: Bioethics and the Handicapped Newborn,” by Richard C. Sparks, Paulist Press, 1988. ISBN 0-8091-2993-0.

“Mothers and Medicine: A Social History of Infant Feeding,” by Rima D. Apple, University of Wisconsin Press, 1987. ISBN 0-299-11484-8.

“A Time to Be Born, A Time to Die,” by Rasa Gustaitis and Ernle W. D. Young, Addison-Wesley, 1986. ISBN 0-201-11555-7.

“Mixed Blessings: Intensive Care for Newborns,” by Jeanne Harley Guillemin and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom, Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-19-50432-5.

“Playing God in the Nursery,” by Jeff Lyon. W. W. Norton, 1985. ISBN 0-393-01898-9.

“Selective Nontreatment of Handicapped Newborns,” by Robert Weir, Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN 0-19-503396-5.

“Coping with Caring for Sick Newborns,” by Richard E. Marshall, Christine Kasman, and Linda S. Cape, W. B. Saunders Co., 1982. ISBN 0-7216-6122-X.

“Retrolental Fibroplasia: A Modern Parable,” by William A. Silverman, Grune and Stratton, 1980. ISBN 0-8089-1264-X. (Full text, posted here by permission.)

“Maternal-Infant Bonding,” by Marshall H. Klaus and John H. Kennell, C. V. Mosby Company, 1976. ISBN 0-8016-2630-7.