title: Withholding treatment from defective newborns: substituted judgment, informed consent, and the Quinlan decision.
authors.forename: Kimball J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Sargeant
mesh_terms: D002961:Civil Rights; D009358:Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities; D003657:Decision Making; D017041:Ethics Committees; D028741:Ethics Committees, Clinical; D005066:Euthanasia, Passive; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007258:Informed Consent; D033282:Parental Consent; D010290:Parents; D018579:Patient Selection; D028723:Personhood; D010820:Physicians; D020458:Third-Party Consent; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D028761:Withholding Treatment