Pediatric Bioethics
- New York Cambridge University 2010
- 289p
includes index and biblioraphy
Virtues and Goals in Pediatrics ...................3 Contributions of Ethical Theory to pediatric Ethics : Pediatricians and Parents as Co-Fiduciaries of Pediatric Patients.........11 Using the Best-Interests standard in Treatment decisions for young children ...........22 The moral and Legal statues of Children and parents ...............38 The ethics of Pediatric Research ...........54 Truth telling in Pediatrics : What they don`t Know Might hurt them .................73 Pediatric Ethics communitees .........87 B. Genetics and the Newborn New born screening ...............111 Presymptomatic Genetic Testing in Children ......125 Extreme Prematurity : Truth and Justice .........141 Disorders of Sex Development ..........149 C. Therapies Rationality, Personhood, and Peter singer on the Fate of Severely impaired infants .........165 The Ethics of Controlling Reproduction in a Population with mental disabilities ......173 Pediatric innovative surgery ............186 Conjoined twins ...........203 Ethics and immunization .......219 Psychotropic drug use in Children : The case of Stimulants ..............231 D. End of Life Brain Death, Minimal Consciousness, and Vegetative states in Children ..............247 The forgoing of Life-sustaining treatment for children .............262