Title: Death or Disability?
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.
Subjects: Children with disabilities, Critical care medicine, Medical ethics, Power over Life and death, Moral and ethical aspects, Care, Medical care, Decision making, Assisted Suicide, Ethics, Child, Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary, Infant, Neonatal Intensive Care, Neuroimaging, Disabled Children, Critical Care, Intensive Care, Withholding Treatment, Bioethical Issues