Death or Disability?
Subtitle: The 'Carmentis Machine' and Decision-Making for Critically Ill Children
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780199669431
Subjects: Children with disabilities; Critical care medicine; Medical ethics
Description: Dominic Wilkinson combines philosophy, medicine, and science to explore the profound and contentious ethical issues facing those who work with critically ill children and infants. He addresses questions about the accuracy of predictions for future quality of life; about when to allow children to die; and about how much say parents should have.