{"id":7696,"date":"2025-06-28T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/pursuing-the-golden-mean-%e2%80%91-moral-decision-making-for-precarious-newborns\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:05:34","slug":"pursuing-the-golden-mean-%e2%80%91-moral-decision-making-for-precarious-newborns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/pursuing-the-golden-mean-%e2%80%91-moral-decision-making-for-precarious-newborns\/","title":{"rendered":"Pursuing the golden mean \u2011 moral decision making for precarious newborns"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was originally published as: Pursuing the golden mean \u2011 moral decision making for precarious newborns<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Abstract<\/h2>\n

Objective: To demonstrate a need, and develop a process, for moral decision making regarding precarious newborns.
\nSetting: The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
\nPrimary argument: This paper argues that it is imperative for healthcare institutions to develop a formal process of ethical review for decision making regarding precarious newborns. Broadly, precarious newborns are those that fall into the following two categories:<\/p>\n

babies with congenital anomalies which are either life threatening or which pose a risk of significant morbidities; and
\nextremely premature babies who are otherwise physically normal.<\/p>\n

After identifying some of the reasons why decision making regarding these infants is particularly fraught, some examples are used to draw out the problems which arise in the absence of a formal decision making process.
\nConclusion: Aristotle\u2019s metaphor of the golden mean provides a framework for a moral decision making process which can be beneficially utilised in complex cases involving precarious newborns. The decision making process advocated in the paper is briefly characterised as a cooperative discursive one, based on inclusive representation and underpinned by core ethical principles such as non\u2011maleficence, beneficence, justice, and transparency.<\/p>\n

Authors<\/h2>\n
    \n
  • Tamara Zutlevics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Keywords<\/h2>\n

    moral decision-making, formal process, precarious newborns<\/p>\n

    References<\/h2>\n

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