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FRONTLINE; Better Off Dead

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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Better Off Dead
- Program Number
221
- Series Description
Premiered January 1983 Since January 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television's - PBS - flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature over 23 years is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience. Series release date: 1/1983
- Program Description
Doctors, lawyers and parents face the agonizing choice: how far do we go with medical treatment for infants born so physically and mentally damaged that they have no hope of leading normal lives? Several intimate case histories are examined, as are the politics of recent legal decisions and government rules relating to the medical care for critically ill babies.
- Duration
00:61:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- News
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Better Off Dead,” WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed April 26, 2018, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_804729AF97E6418487CF62F07E6FCDB2.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Better Off Dead.” WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. April 26, 2018. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_804729AF97E6418487CF62F07E6FCDB2>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Better Off Dead. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_804729AF97E6418487CF62F07E6FCDB2