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 a Fellow 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.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Judaism and Neonatology
Chapter 2: Catholicism and the Neonatal Context
Chapter 3: Reading Tragedy Through the Christian Story: An Anabaptist Perspective
Chapter 4: Spirituality in a Time of Crisis: A Protestant Christian Perspective
Chapter 5: Muslim Biomedical Ethics of Neonatal Care: Theory, Praxis, and Authority
Chapter 6: A Muslim Neonatologist in a Canadian NICU
Chapter 7: Shiva's Babies: Hindu Perspectives on the Treatment of High-Risk Newborn Infants
Chapter 8: Life Before Birth: Buddhist Perspectives on Neonatal Care
Chapter 9: How Age-Old Cultural Tenets Complicate the Care of Premature or Sick Navajo Newborns
Chapter 10: Moral Status and Care of Impaired Newborns: An African-American Protestant Perspective
Chapter 11: Seventh-Day Adventists and Care for the Newborn
Afterword