Pediatric Bioethics

by Edited by Geoffrey Miller

• ISBN13: 9780521135948
• ISBN10: 052113594X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780511847707
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume offers a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine. It serves as a fundamental handbook and resource for pediatricians, nurses, residents in training, graduate students, and practitioners of ethics and healthcare policy. Written by a team of leading experts, Pediatric Bioethics addresses those difficult ethical questions concerning the clinical and academic practice of pediatrics, including an approach to recognizing boundaries when confronted with issues such as end of life care, life-sustaining treatment, extreme prematurity, pharmacotherapy, and research. Thorny topics such as what constitutes best interests, personhood, or distributive justice and public health concerns such as immunization and newborn genetic screening are also addressed.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Miller is Professor of Pediatrics and Neurology at the Yale University School of Medicine as well as member of the Yale Bioethics Center and the Child Neurology Society Bioethics Committee.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
The Foundation: Theory and Principles
Virtues and Goals in Pediatrics	p. 3
Contributions of Ethical Theory of Pediatric Ethics: Pediatricians and Parents as Co-fiduciaries of Pediatric Patients	p. 11
Using the Best-Interests Standard in Treatment Decisions for Young Children	p. 22
The Moral and Legal Status of Children and Parents	p. 38
The Ethics of Pediatric Research	p. 54
Truth Telling in Pediatrics: What They Don't Know Might Hurt Them	p. 73
Pediatric Ethics Committees	p. 87
Genetics and the Newborn
Newborn Screening	p. 111
Presymptomatic Genetic Testing in Children	p. 125
Extreme Prematurity: Truth and Justice	p. 141
Disorders of Sex Development	p. 149
Therapies
Rationality, Personhood, and Peter Singer on the Fate of Severely Impaired Infants	p. 165
The Ethics of Controlling Reproduction in a Population with Mental Disabilities	p. 173
Pediatric Innovative Surgery	p. 186
Conjoined Twins	p. 203
Ethics and Immunization	p. 219
Psychotropic Drug Use in Children: The Case of Stimulants	p. 231
End of Life
Brain Death, Minimal Consciousness, and Vegetative States in Children	p. 247
The Forgoing of Life-Sustaining Treatment for Chidren	p. 262
Index	p. 285
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