Noteworthy Stories
Cases over the past decades that have grabbed media headlines.
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Section Editor:
D. Micah Hester, PhD
Associate Professor
Univ. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock, AR
Pediatric
- Neil Beagley (Oregon) - death of child after faith healing
- Billy Best (Massachusetts) - teen refusal of chemo
- Motl Brody (New York) - religious objection to brain death determination
- Abraham Cherrix (Virginia) - teen refusal of chemo
- Baby Doe (Indiana) & Baby Jane Doe (New York) - neonatal decisions regarding life-prolonging treatments
- Daniel Hauser (Minnesota) - teen refusal of chemo
- Baby K (Virginia) - treatment decisions regarding child with anenecephaly
- Dennis Lindberg (Washington) - teen refusal of blood transfusion
- Kara Neumann (Wisconsin) - death of child after faith healing
- Willowbrook (New York) - hepatitis experiments on institutionalized children
- Ashley X (Washington) - growth attenuation procedures of child with static encephalopathy
Adult
- Nancy Cruzan (Missouri) - Supreme Court (1990) weighs in on removing life-prolonging medical treatments
- Karen Ann Quinlan (New Jersey) - Watershed case (1976) of familial request to remove life-prolonging treatments