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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 May 23, 2017, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_804729AF97E6418487CF62F07E6FCDB2.

MLA: “FRONTLINE; Better Off Dead.” WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. May 23, 2017. <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