The Ethics of Caring for Conjoined Twins: The Lakeberg Twins
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Thomasma, David C.
Muraskas, Jonathan
Marshall, Patricia A.
Myers, Thomas
Tomich, Paul
O'Neill, James A.
Bibliographic Citation
Hastings Center Report. 1996 Jul-Aug; 26(4): 4-12.
Abstract
In June 1993, conjoined twins Amy and Angela Lakeberg became the focus of national attention. They shared a complex six-chambered heart and one liver; only one could survive separation surgery, and even her chances were slim. The medical challenge was great and the ethical challenges were even greater.
Date
1996-07Subject
Allowing to Die; Caring; Children; Clinical Ethics; Clinical Ethics Committees; Congenital Disorders; Consent; Decision Making; Double Effect; Ethics; Ethics Committees; Family Relationship; Futility; Health; Health Care; Hospitals; Infants; Institutional Policies; Justice; Killing; Life; Metaphor; Minors; Moral Policy; Nontherapeutic Research; Organ Donation; Parents; Patient Care; Personhood; Physicians; Presumed Consent; Prognosis; Prolongation of Life; Quality of Life; Research; Resource Allocation; Surgery; Therapeutic Research; Third Party Consent; Twins; Value of Life; Ventilators; Withholding Treatment;
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