Ethical dilemmas in pediatrics : cases and commentaries /
edited by Lorry R. Frankel [and others].
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- 1 online resource (xi, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Unconventional medicine in the pediatric intensive care unit / Chester J. Randle Jr. -- Role responsibility in pediatrics : appeasing or transforming parental demands? / Richard B. Miller -- The extremely premature infant at the crossroads / Ronald Cohen and Eugene Kim -- The extremely premature infant at the crossroads : ethical and legal considerations / Simon N. Whitney -- Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Manuel Garcia-Careaga and John A. Kerner Jr. -- Some conceptual and ethical issues in Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Frances M. Kamm -- Letting go : a study in pediatric life-and-death decision making / Lawrence H. Mathers -- Near-drowning, futility, and the limits of shared decision making / Simon N. Whitney -- Long-term ventilation in a child with severe central nervous system impairment / Ronald M. Perkin, Robert Orr, and Stephen Ashwal -- Autonomy, community, and futility : moral paradigms for the long-term ventilation of a severely impaired child / Anita Silvers -- Complexities in the management of a brain-dead child / Lorry R. Frankel and Chester J. Randle Jr. -- The moral arena in the management of a brain-dead child / Amnon Goldworth -- Where should a child die? / Roger Burne -- Where should a child (in the USA) die? / William A. Silverman -- Infant heart transplantation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome : what are the ethical issues? / Clifford Chin -- Infant heart transplantation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome : a response / Joel E. Frader -- Liver and intestinal transplantation / Manuel Garcia-Careaga, Ricardo Orlando Castillo, and John A Kerner Jr. -- Transplantation and adolescents / Rosamond Rhodes -- Ethical problems encountered with oncology and bone marrow transplant patients / Lorry R. Frankel and Joseph V. DiCarlo -- Ethics in the pediatric intensive care unit : oncology and bone marrow transplant patients / Linda Granowetter -- Nursing perspectives on withholding food and fluids in pediatrics / Joy Penticuff -- Ethics and clinical decision making : withholding food and information / Mary V. Rorty -- Ethics and managed care / Douglas S. Diekema -- Challenging fidelity : the physician's role in rationing / Nancy S. Jecker.
Children in precarious health present particular problems for healthcare professionals because of their intimate relation to their family, and because of the family's need to provide major long-term source of support and to be actively involved in the decisions about their children's care. This collection of cases and commentaries in pediatrics highlights the difficult ethical dilemmas that can arise during high-tech hospital care of children in precarious circumstances. It serves as a teaching tool for clinical ethics and as an introduction for medical students and residents. Clinical cases are described in detail by the physicians involved, who focus on the ethical issues arising during treatment. Each case is then commented on in detail by a philosopher or other bioethicist. It thus serves well as an introduction to contemporary clinical bioethics, but with a firm grounding in the practicalities of real-life pediatric care in the hospital setting.
9780511545504 (ebook)
Pediatrics--Moral and ethical aspects. Pediatrics--Moral and ethical aspects--Case studies. Medical ethics.