Uncertainty in Medical Innovation: Experienced Pioneers in Neonatal Care (Health, Technology and Society)

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a site where hi-tech medicine and vulnerable human beings come into close contact. Focusing on a number of medical and ethical challenges encountered by staff and parents, this book provides a new perspective on the complexity of these treatments and the inventiveness of those involved. *Winner of the British Sociology Association's Sociology of Health and Illness Prize* Neonatology: a permanent dynamic of change Newly born and indeterminate Co-travellers Uncertain trajectories Beacons on the horizon The moral load The end of the journey.