Pediatric bioethics
By: edited by Geoffrey Miller.
Contributors: Miller, Geoffrey, 1947-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780521517980; 9780521135948
Subjects: Pediatricians -- Professional ethics; Pediatrics -- ethics; Bioethical Issues; Ethics, Medical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Virtues and goals in pediatrics / G. Kevin Donovan and Edmund D. Pellegrino; title: Contributions of ethical theory to pediatric ethics : parents as co-fiduciaries of pediatrics patients / Laurence B. McCullough; title: Using the best interests standards in treatment decisions for young children / Loretta M. Kopelman; title: Moral and legal status of children and parents / Sadath A. Sayeed; title: The ethics of pediatric research / Jonathan D. Moreno and Alexandra Kravitt; title: Truth telling in pediatrics : what they don't know might hurt them / Christine Harrison; title: Pediatric ethics committees / Mark R. Mercurio; title: Newborn screening / Lainie Friedman Ross; title: Presymptomatic genetic testing in children / Kimberly A. Quaid; title: Extreme prematurity : truth and justice / Geoffrey Miller; title: Disorders of sex development / Alice D. Dreger and David Sandberg; title: Rationality, personhood, and Peter Singer on the fate of severely impaired infants / Eva Feder Kittay; title: The ethics of controlling reproduction in a population with mental disabilities / Paul A. Lombardo; title: Pediatric innovative surgery / Angelique M. Reitsma; title: Conjoined twins / Alice D. Dreger and Geoffrey Miller; title: Ethics and immunization / Joel E. Frader and Erin Flanagan-Klygis; title: Psychotropic drug use in children : the case of stimulants / Ilina Singh; title: Brain death, minimal consciousness, and vegetative states in children / Geoffrey Miller and Stephen Ashwal; title: The foregoing of life sustaining treatment for children / Sadath A. Sayeed and Geoffrey Miller.