Reporting the Case of Baby Jane Doe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20334382 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Kerr (0000-0002-7955-7551, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 7 |
| Publication date | 1984-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3561158 |
| PMID | 6237076 |
| OpenAlex | W2169631230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Kathleen Kerr of the Long Island newspaper Newsday describes her paper's coverage of the Baby Jane Doe case for which she as the lead reporter received a Pulitzer Prize. Kerr traces her and Newsday's involvement from the first request for a court hearing to compel surgery against parental wishes to the broader issues of the ethical, legal, and public policy aspects of treatment decisions for handicapped newborns
Newspaper · Political science · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Law · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |