| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pediatricians -- Professional ethics.
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Pediatrics -- ethics.
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Bioethical Issues.
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Ethics, Medical.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Miller, Geoffrey, 1947-
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| ISBN |
0511637020 (electronic bk.) |
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0511641915 (electronic bk.) |
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0511642385 (electronic bk.) |
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0511758146 (electronic bk.) |
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052113594X |
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0521517982 |
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6612386703 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511637025 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511641916 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511642388 (electronic bk.) |
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9780511758140 (electronic bk.) |
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9780521135948 |
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9780521517980 |
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9786612386701 (electronic bk.) |
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(paperback) |
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(hardback) |
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