Michael van Manen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and Endowed Chair of Health Ethics and Director of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has a clinical practice as a physician in neonatal-perinatal medicine with the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

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• Introduction. Section I Before a Child is Born. Conceiving Ethics. Pregnant with Child. Ultrasound Imaging and Virtual Presence. Nascent Expectations and Hope. Meaningful Outcomes. Section II In the Cradle of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Newborn Encounters. Technics of Touch. Skin-to-Skin Togetherness. Imaging the Child. Attachment and Responsibility. Section III Ethics and Decisions Situating Decisions. Decisions Without Choices. Looking for Ways Out of Decisions. Thinking and Feeling Through Decisions. Decisions and Indecisions. Falling into Decisions. Conclusions and Beginnings. Ethical Moral Perspectives. References

Michael van Manen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and Endowed Chair of Health Ethics and Director of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has a clinical practice as a physician in neonatal-perinatal medicine with the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

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• Introduction. Section I Before a Child is Born. Conceiving Ethics. Pregnant with Child. Ultrasound Imaging and Virtual Presence. Nascent Expectations and Hope. Meaningful Outcomes. Section II In the Cradle of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Newborn Encounters. Technics of Touch. Skin-to-Skin Togetherness. Imaging the Child. Attachment and Responsibility. Section III Ethics and Decisions Situating Decisions. Decisions Without Choices. Looking for Ways Out of Decisions. Thinking and Feeling Through Decisions. Decisions and Indecisions. Falling into Decisions. Conclusions and Beginnings. Ethical Moral Perspectives. References

Michael van Manen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, and Endowed Chair of Health Ethics and Director of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has a clinical practice as a physician in neonatal-perinatal medicine with the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

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• Introduction. Section I Before a Child is Born. Conceiving Ethics. Pregnant with Child. Ultrasound Imaging and Virtual Presence. Nascent Expectations and Hope. Meaningful Outcomes. Section II In the Cradle of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Newborn Encounters. Technics of Touch. Skin-to-Skin Togetherness. Imaging the Child. Attachment and Responsibility. Section III Ethics and Decisions Situating Decisions. Decisions Without Choices. Looking for Ways Out of Decisions. Thinking and Feeling Through Decisions. Decisions and Indecisions. Falling into Decisions. Conclusions and Beginnings. Ethical Moral Perspectives. References