Our Commitment to the Disabled Child: Presented to the Conference on Improving Services to Handicapped Children through State/Local Collaboration, Washington, DC Disabled Children Physician-Patient Relations Parent-Child Relations Social Welfare 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. Produced: 2 June 1983 Koop, C. Everett Speeches Archival Materials Text 22 pages nlm:nlmuid-101584930X30-doc 101584930X30 http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X30 Profiles ID: QQBBCM English Profiles in Science