Ethical dilemmas in pediatrics
Subtitle: cases and commentaries
By: edited by Lorry R. Frankel ... [et al.].
Contributors: Frankel, Lorry R.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Pediatrics -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Pediatrics -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies.; Medical ethics.; Pediatrics -- ethics -- Case Reports.; Adolescent.; Bioethical Issues -- Case Reports.; Child.; Hospitals -- Case Reports.; Infant.
Genres: Case studies.; Case Reports.
Description: This collection of cases and commentaries highlights ethical dilemmas arising during high-tech hospital care of seriously-ill children.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Unconventional medicine in the pediatric intensive care unit / Chester J. Randle Jr.; title: Role responsibility in pediatrics : appeasing or transforming parental demands? / Richard B. Miller; title: The extremely premature infant at the crossroads / Ronald Cohen and Eugene Kim; title: The extremely premature infant at the crossroads : ethical and legal considerations / Simon N. Whitney; title: Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Manuel Garcia-Careaga and John A. Kerner Jr.; title: Some conceptual and ethical issues in Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Frances M. Kamm; title: Letting go : a study in pediatric life-and-death decision making / Lawrence H. Mathers; title: Near-drowning, futility, and the limits of shared decision making / Simon N. Whitney; title: Long-term ventilation in a child with severe central nervous system impairment / Ronald M. Perkin, Robert Orr, and Stephen Ashwal; title: Autonomy, community, and futility : moral paradigms for the long-term ventilation of a severely impaired child / Anita Silvers; title: Complexities in the management of a brain-dead child / Lorry R. Frankel and Chester J. Randle Jr.; title: The moral arena in the management of a brain-dead child / Amnon Goldworth; title: Where should a child die? / Roger Burne; title: Where should a child (in the USA) die? / William A. Silverman; title: Infant heart transplantation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome : what are the ethical issues? / Clifford Chin; title: Infant heart transplantation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome : a response / Joel E. Frader; title: Liver and intestinal transplantation / Manuel Garcia-Careaga, Ricardo Orlando Castillo, and John A Kerner Jr.; title: Transplantation and adolescents / Rosamond Rhodes; title: Ethical problems encountered with oncology and bone marrow transplant patients / Lorry R. Frankel and Joseph V. DiCarlo; title: Ethics in the pediatric intensive care unit : oncology and bone marrow transplant patients / Linda Granowetter; title: Nursing perspectives on withholding food and fluids in pediatrics / Joy Penticuff; title: Ethics and clinical decision making : withholding food and information / Mary V. Rorty; title: Ethics and managed care / Douglas S. Diekema; title: Challenging fidelity : the physician's role in rationing / Nancy S. Jecker.