Pediatric bioethics / edited by Geoffrey Miller.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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.

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.