Pediatric bioethics /
Paediatric bioethics
edited by Geoffrey Miller.
- xiii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Virtues and goals in pediatrics / G. Kevin Donovan and Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Contributions of ethical theory to pediatric ethics : Pediatricians and parents as co-fiduciaries of pediatric patients / Laurence B. McCullough -- Using the best interests standards in treatment decisions for young children / Loretta M. Kopelman -- The moral and legal status of children and parents / Sadath A. Sayeed -- The ethics of pediatric research / Jonathan D. Moreno and Alexandra Kravitt -- Truth telling in pediatrics : what they don't know might hurt them / Christine Harrison -- Pediatric ethics committees / Mark R. Mercurio -- Newborn screening / Lainie Friedman Ross -- Presymptomatic genetic testing in children / Kimberly A. Quaid -- Extreme prematurity : truth and justice / Geoffrey Miller -- Disorders of sex development / Alice D. Dreger and David Sandberg -- Rationality, personhood, and Peter Singer on the fate of severely impaired infants / Eva Feder Kittay -- The ethics of controlling reproduction in a population with mental disabilities / Paul A. Lombardo -- Pediatric innovative surgery / Angelique M. Reitsma -- Conjoined twins / Alice D. Dreger and Geoffrey Miller -- Ethics and immunization / Joel E. Frader and Erin Flanagan-Klygis -- Psychotropic drug use in children : the case of stimulants / Ilina Singh -- Brain death, minimal consciousness, and vegetative states in children / Geoffrey Miller and Stephen Ashwal -- The foregoing of life sustaining treatment for children / Sadath A. Sayeed and Geoffrey Miller.
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2009008942
Pediatricians--Professional ethics Medical ethics. Pediatrics--Moral and ethical aspects Bioethical Issues