Children Ethics And Modern Medicine

Author : Richard B. Miller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780253109927

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Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine by Richard B. Miller Pdf

"Because the discipline of medical ethics has developed with autonomy as its foundation, the field has ignored pediatric ethics. The book is resoundingly successful in its effort to rectify this problem.... [A] pleasure to read." -- Eric D. Kodish, M.D., Director, Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics, Case Western Reserve University Using a form of medical ethnography to investigate a variety of pediatric contexts, Richard B. Miller tests the fit of different ethical approaches in various medical settings to arrive at a new paradigm for how best to care for children. Miller contends that the principle of beneficence must take priority over autonomy in the treatment of children. Yet what is best for the child is a decision that doctors cannot make alone. In making and implementing such decisions, Miller argues, doctors must become part of a "therapeutic alliance" with families and the child undergoing medical care to come up with the best solution. Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine combines strong philosophical argumentation with firsthand knowledge of the issues facing children and families in pediatric care. This book will be an invaluable asset to medical ethicists and practitioners in pediatric care, as well as parents struggling with ethical issues in the care of their children.

Author : Robert Hunt,John Arras
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Medical
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007495067

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Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine by Robert Hunt,John Arras Pdf

Author : Douglas S. Diekema,Mark R. Mercurio,Mary B. Adam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139501835

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Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics by Douglas S. Diekema,Mark R. Mercurio,Mary B. Adam Pdf

This volume provides a practical overview of the ethical issues arising in pediatric practice. The case-based approach grounds the bioethical concepts in real-life situations, covering a broad range of important and controversial topics, including informed consent, confidentiality, truthfulness and fidelity, ethical issues relating to perinatology and neonatology, end-of-life issues, new technologies, and problems of justice and public health in pediatrics. A dedicated section also addresses the topics of professionalism, including boundary issues, conflicts of interests and relationships with industry, ethical issues arising during training, and dealing with the impaired or unethical colleague. Each chapter contains a summary of the key issues covered and recommendations for approaching similar situations in other contexts. Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-Based Textbook is an essential resource for all physicians who care for children, as well as medical educators, residents and scholars in clinical bioethics.

Author : Michael D. Shields,Jonathan P. Fleming,Lucy K. Shields
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527546967

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Ethics in Child Health by Michael D. Shields,Jonathan P. Fleming,Lucy K. Shields Pdf

Should every child be vaccinated before being allowed to go to school? Should children be allowed to refuse medical treatment even if it might save their life? Does the fetus or unborn child have any rights? Is it acceptable for a child’s family to demand an expensive treatment despite uncertain benefits? If you are a healthcare professional involved in the care of children, how would you even begin to approach these dilemmas? This book provides a unique resource; it is a concise, practical case-based interactive workbook which will help the reader critically think about, and approach, ethical problems in child health. Its key features include an introduction to medical ethics in child health; a method to approach clinical ethical dilemmas; interactive case studies; and thought-provoking discussions. It will be particularly helpful for undergraduate medical and nursing students, post-graduate paediatric trainees, paediatric nurses and allied health professionals.

Author : Dominic Wilkinson,Julian Savulescu
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780702077821

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Ethics, Conflict and Medical Treatment for Children E-Book by Dominic Wilkinson,Julian Savulescu Pdf

What should happen when doctors and parents disagree about what would be best for a child? When should courts become involved? Should life support be stopped against parents’ wishes? The case of Charlie Gard, reached global attention in 2017. It led to widespread debate about the ethics of disagreements between doctors and parents, about the place of the law in such disputes, and about the variation in approach between different parts of the world. In this book, medical ethicists Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu critically examine the ethical questions at the heart of disputes about medical treatment for children. They use the Gard case as a springboard to a wider discussion about the rights of parents, the harms of treatment, and the vital issue of limited resources. They discuss other prominent UK and international cases of disagreement and conflict. From opposite sides of the debate Wilkinson and Savulescu provocatively outline the strongest arguments in favour of and against treatment. They analyse some of the distinctive and challenging features of treatment disputes in the 21st century and argue that disagreement about controversial ethical questions is both inevitable and desirable. They outline a series of lessons from the Gard case and propose a radical new ‘dissensus’ framework for future cases of disagreement. This new book critically examines the core ethical questions at the heart of disputes about medical treatment for children. The contents review prominent cases of disagreement from the UK and internationally and analyse some of the distinctive and challenging features around treatment disputes in the 21st century. The book proposes a radical new framework for future cases of disagreement around the care of gravely ill people.

Author : Geoffrey Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521517980

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Pediatric Bioethics by Geoffrey Miller Pdf

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 : Michael D. Shields,P. Jonathan Fleming,Lucy K. Shields
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527545741

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Ethics in Child Health by Michael D. Shields,P. Jonathan Fleming,Lucy K. Shields Pdf

Should every child be vaccinated before being allowed to go to school? Should children be allowed to refuse medical treatment even if it might save their life? Does the fetus or unborn child have any rights? Is it acceptable for a childâ (TM)s family to demand an expensive treatment despite uncertain benefits? If you are a healthcare professional involved in the care of children, how would you even begin to approach these dilemmas? This book provides a unique resource; it is a concise, practical case-based interactive workbook which will help the reader critically think about, and approach, ethical problems in child health. Its key features include an introduction to medical ethics in child health; a method to approach clinical ethical dilemmas; interactive case studies; and thought-provoking discussions. It will be particularly helpful for undergraduate medical and nursing students, post-graduate paediatric trainees, paediatric nurses and allied health professionals.

Author : Michael Parker,Donna Dickenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521788633

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The Cambridge Medical Ethics Workbook by Michael Parker,Donna Dickenson Pdf

This is a case-based introduction designed to examine the ethical questions raised by modern medical practice.

Author : Cassidy
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3718657562

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Pediatric Ethics - from Princ- by Cassidy Pdf

Pediatric Ethicshas been written by experienced pediatric caregivers. All the most difficult and challenging pediatric issues are faced, from truth-telling for the child to confidentiality for the adolescent and from 'futility' in intensive care to conflicting interests in the private office. This book has been specifically designed to enhance the practitioner's ability to identify, evaluate and manage the real ethical problems that arise in caring for children and their families.

Author : Richard H. Nicholson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015010144122

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Medical Research with Children by Richard H. Nicholson Pdf

Should children be excluded from medical research? Some child rights activists argue that no child should ever be used for research, while many physicians claim that health care for children will not improve without such experimentation. This informative study examines the legal and ethical basis for carrying out research on children, discussing such factors as the distinction between therapeutic and nontherapeutic research, the nature of risk in medical research, and the degree to which children can make responsible decisions regarding research on themselves. A thoughtful, lucid consideration of an important issue in medical ethics, this book will be of interest to all doctors working in medical research, and to pediatricians, moral philosophers, family lawyers, child welfare proponents, and interested lay people.

Author : Hilde Lindemann Nelson,James Lindemann Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317857068

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The Patient in the Family by Hilde Lindemann Nelson,James Lindemann Nelson Pdf

The Patient in the Family diagnoses the ways in which the worlds of home and hospital misunderstand each other. The authors explore how medicine, through its new reproductive technologies, is altering the structure of families, how families can participate more fully in medical decision-making, and how to understand the impact on families when medical advances extend life but not vitality.

Author : Lorry R. Frankel,Amnon Goldworth,Mary V. Rorty,William A. Silverman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781139446266

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Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics by Lorry R. Frankel,Amnon Goldworth,Mary V. Rorty,William A. Silverman Pdf

Children in precarious health present particular problems for healthcare professionals because of their intimate relation to their family, and because of the family's need to provide major long-term source of support and to be actively involved in the decisions about their children's care. This collection of cases and commentaries in pediatrics highlights the difficult ethical dilemmas that can arise during high-tech hospital care of children in precarious circumstances. It serves as a teaching tool for clinical ethics and as an introduction for medical students and residents. Clinical cases are described in detail by the physicians involved, who focus on the ethical issues arising during treatment. Each case is then commented on in detail by a philosopher or other bioethicist. It thus serves well as an introduction to contemporary clinical bioethics, but with a firm grounding in the practicalities of real-life pediatric care in the hospital setting.

Author : James J. Rusthoven
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625640024

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Covenantal Biomedical Ethics for Contemporary Medicine by James J. Rusthoven Pdf

Principles-based biomedical ethics has been a dominant paradigm for the teaching and practice of biomedical ethics for over three decades. Attractive in its conceptual and linguistic simplicity, it has also been criticized for its lack of moral content and justification and its lack of attention to relationships. This book identifies the modernist and postmodernist worldviews and philosophical roots of principlism that ground the moral minimalism of its common morality premise. Building on previous work by prominent Christian bioethicists, an alternative covenantal ethical framework is presented in our contemporary context. Relationships constitute the core of medicine, and understanding the ethical meaning of those relationships is important in providing competent and empathic care. While the notion of covenant is articulated through the richness of meaning taught in the Christian Scriptures, covenantal commitment is also appreciated in Islamic, Jewish, and even pagan traditions as well. In a world of increasing medical knowledge and consequent complexity of care, such commitment can help to resist enticements toward the pursuit of self-interest. It can also improve relationships among caregivers, each of whose specific expertise must be woven into a matrix of care that constitutes optimal medical practice for each vulnerable and needy patient.

Author : Nico Nortjé,Johan C. Bester
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030861848

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Pediatric Ethics: Theory and Practice by Nico Nortjé,Johan C. Bester Pdf

This book assists health care providers to understand the specific interplay of the roles and relationships currently forming the debates in pediatric clinical ethics. It builds on the fact that, unlike adult medical ethics, pediatric ethics begins within an acutely and powerfully experienced dynamic of patient-family-state-physician relationship. The book provides a unique perspective as it interacts with established approaches as well as recent developments in pediatric ethics theory, and then explores these developments further through cases. The book first focuses on setting the stage by introducing a theoretical framework and elaborating how pediatric ethics differ from non-pediatric ethics. It approaches different theoretical frameworks in a critical manner drawing on their strengths and weaknesses. It helps the reader in developing an ability to engage in ethical reasoning and moral deliberation in order to focus on the wellbeing of the child as the main participant in the ethical deliberation, as well as to be able to identify the child’s moral claims. The second section of the book focuses on the practical application of these theoretical frameworks and discusses specific areas pertaining to decision-making. These are: the critically ill child, new and enduring ethical controversies, and social justice at large, the latter of which includes looking at the child’s place in society, access to healthcare, social determinants of health, and vaccinations. With the dynamic changes and challenges pediatric care faces across the globe, as well as the changing face of new technologies, no professional working in the field of pediatrics can afford not to take due note of this resource.

Author : Michael Dunn,R. A. Hope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Medical ethics
ISBN : 0191853178

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Medical Ethics by Michael Dunn,R. A. Hope Pdf

Dealing with some of the thorniest problems in medicine, from euthanasia to the distribution of health care resources, this book introduces the reasoning we can use to approach medical ethics. Exploring how medical ethics supports health professionals' work, it also considers the impact of the media, pressure groups, and legal judgments.