Our Commitment to the Disabled Child: Presented to the Conference on Improving Services to Handicapped Children through State/Local Collaboration, Washington, DC

Our Commitment to the Disabled Child: Presented to the Conference on Improving Services to Handicapped Children through State/Local Collaboration, Washington, DC

Contributor(s):
Koop, Charles Everett, 1916-2013
Publication:
Produced: 2 June 1983
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Disabled Children
Physician-Patient Relations
Parent-Child Relations
Social Welfare
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Speeches
Abstract:
The speech examined the role of physicians, families, hospital staff, communities, and social service organizations in caring for disabled children, including the role of the children themselves. Koop delivered the speech at the time of legal and political controversy over the "Baby Doe" regulations, regulations proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services in the spring of 1983 to prescribe surgical and medical care for babies born with severe birth defects. Koop supported the regulations reluctantly because they interfered with the professional autonomy of physicians, but he fully endorsed the goal of the regulations to protect the right of newborns to medical treatment.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
22 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584930X30 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
QQBBCM
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X30
Archival Collection:
The C. Everett Koop Papers (Profiles in Science)