Pediatric Bioethics
Published on 23. November 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-521-13594-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine. It serves as a fundamental handbook and resource for pediatricians, nurses, residents in training, graduate students, and practitioners of ethics and healthcare policy. Written by a team of leading experts, Pediatric Bioethics addresses those difficult ethical questions concerning the clinical and academic practice of pediatrics, including an approach to recognizing boundaries when confronted with issues such as end of life care, life-sustaining treatment, extreme prematurity, pharmacotherapy, and research. Thorny topics such as what constitutes best interests, personhood, or distributive justice and public health concerns such as immunization and newborn genetic screening are also addressed.
Reviews / Votes
'A useful resource to be dipped in and out of for practitioners involved in the care of children from birth through to adolescent years.' Nursing StandardMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 Tables, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
496 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-13594-8 (9780521135948)
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Pediatric Bioethics
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Person
Geoffrey Miller is Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the Yale University School of Medicine. A member of the Yale Bioethics Center and the Child Neurology Society Bioethics Committee, he is author of Extreme Prematurity: Practices, Bioethics, and the Law and editor of the books Static Encephalopathies of Infancy and Childhood and The Cerebral Palsies: Causes, Consequences and Management.
Content
Part I. The Foundation: Theory and Principles: 1. Virtues and goals in pediatrics G. Kevin Donovan and Edmund D. Pellegrino; 2. Contributions of ethical theory to pediatric ethics: parents as co-fiduciaries of pediatrics patients Laurence B. McCullough; 3. Using the best interests standards in treatment decisions for young children Loretta M. Kopelman; 4. Moral and legal status of children and parents Sadath A. Sayeed; 5. The ethics of pediatric research Jonathan D. Moreno and Alexandra Kravitt; 6. Truth telling in pediatrics: what they don't know might hurt them Christine Harrison; 7. Pediatric ethics committees Mark R. Mercurio; Part II. Genetics and the Newborn: 8. Newborn screening Lainie Friedman Ross; 9. Presymptomatic genetic testing in children Kimberly A. Quaid; 10. Extreme prematurity: truth and justice Geoffrey Miller; 11. Disorders of sex development Alice D. Dreger and David Sandberg; Part III. Therapies: 12. Rationality, personhood, and Peter Singer on the fate of severely impaired infants Eva Feder Kittay; 13. The ethics of controlling reproduction in a population with mental disabilities Paul A. Lombardo; 14. Pediatric innovative surgery Angelique M. Reitsma; 15. Conjoined twins Alice D. Dreger and Geoffrey Miller; 16. Ethics and immunization Joel E. Frader and Erin Flanagan-Klygis; 17. Psychotropic drug use in children: the case of stimulants Ilina Singh; Part IV. End of Life: 18. Brain death, minimal consciousness, and vegetative states in children Geoffrey Miller and Stephen Ashwal; 19. The foregoing of life sustaining treatment for children Sadath A. Sayeed and Geoffrey Miller.