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This book uses neonatal intensive care as an example of the complex decisions that must be made as we try to harness ambiguous technology to human ends. The answers that we have come to about decisions in the NICU are not settled or final. The process of coming to moral consensus is iterative, non-linear, and ongoing. Scientific discoveries change the way we think about what it means to be human and what it means to live in community. Each story of scientific discovery and innovation is a story of the struggle to find the balance between the new emerging possibilities for human flourishing, and the risks and dangers that are held within it.
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Lantos, J. (2016). Making Tough Ethical Choices in a Morally Pluralistic World. In: Verhagen, E., Janvier, A. (eds) Ethical Dilemmas for Critically Ill Babies. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7360-7_11
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