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ArticleMedicine, health care, and philosophy2020

Neonatology in Austria: ethics to improve practice.

Michal Stanak

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Article in Medicine, health care, and philosophy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. 40 years neonatology : An academic life.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2025
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Michal StanakAustrian Institute for Health Technology Assessment, Garnisongasse 7/20, Vienna, 1090, Austria. michal.stanak@hta.lbg.ac.at.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the world of Austrian neonatal intensive care units, the role of ethics is recognized only partially. The normatively tense cases that are at the backdrop of this essay concern the situations around the limit of viability (weeks 22 + 0 days to 25 + 6 days of gestation), which is the point in the development of an extremely preterm infant at which there are chances of extra-uterine survival. This essay first outlines the key explicit ethical challenges that are mainly concerned with notions of uncertainty and best interest. Then, it attempts to elucidate the less explicit ethical challenges related to the notion of nudging in the neonatal practice and argue that the role of ethics needs to be recognized more-with the focus on the role of virtue ethics-in order to improve the practice of neonatal medicine.

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Infant, Extremely PrematureMoralsAustriaDecision MakingGestational AgeHumansInfant, NewbornIntensive Care Units, NeonatalNeonatologyPalliative CarePaternalismPhilosophy, MedicalUncertaintyEthicsLimit of viabilityNeonatologyVirtue ethics

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PMID32144643
PMCPMC7426316

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