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- Title
Oxygen and Estrogen.
- Authors
Wilfond, Benjamim S.
- Abstract
Every so often, a bioethics controversy emerges that galvanizes our views. The Surfactant, Positive Pressure, and Oxygenation Randomized Trial mushroomed into a controversy of this sort this past year. In 2007, the 'Ashley case,' involving the use of estrogen to attenuate the growth of a girl with profound disabilities, was similarly controversial. Some of the lessons from that debate, in which I was centrally involved, may help advance the discussion about SUPPORT.
- Subjects
ESTROGEN replacement therapy; DECISION making in clinical medicine; CAREGIVERS; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; HUMAN growth; PREMATURE infants; INFORMED consent (Medical law); MEDICAL ethics; CHILDREN; ETHICS
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2013, Vol 43, Issue 6, p00
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.234