Choosing for Children
Parents' Consent to Surgery
1st Edition
Published on 9. May 2023
274 pages
978-1-000-85291-2 (ISBN)
Description
One mother described part of the complications of consenting to her one-week-old child's high-risk heart surgery.
'I can't imagine her being any more precious to me than she is now. I can hardly bear feeling so close to her as it is...I can't wait until I see her again. It's worse than being in love.'
Can emotional parents be rational enough to give informed proxy consent? Research observations and interviews with many parents and practitioners in the wards, clinics and medical meetings in two London hospitals show how parents' moral emotions of fear and hope are central to their informed decision-making and voluntary consent.
This record from the 1980s offers useful historical comparisons with today's paediatric cardiac services in both the remarkable progress over nearly 40 years and the continuing concerns.
'I can't imagine her being any more precious to me than she is now. I can hardly bear feeling so close to her as it is...I can't wait until I see her again. It's worse than being in love.'
Can emotional parents be rational enough to give informed proxy consent? Research observations and interviews with many parents and practitioners in the wards, clinics and medical meetings in two London hospitals show how parents' moral emotions of fear and hope are central to their informed decision-making and voluntary consent.
This record from the 1980s offers useful historical comparisons with today's paediatric cardiac services in both the remarkable progress over nearly 40 years and the continuing concerns.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-000-85291-2 (9781000852912)
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Person
Priscilla Alderson
Content
New Preface Medical terms 1. Introduction 2. Consent in the wards 3. Consent in the clinics 4. Medical decisions: the medical background to consent 5. Professional team-work 6. Informed consent: awareness 7. Voluntary consent: willingness 8. Trust between doctors and families 9. Ethical medicine and bioethics 10. Proxy consent Notes Index of children Index
