Pediatric Bioethics

Geoffrey Miller editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:23rd Nov '09

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This volume provides a theoretical and practical overview of the ethics of pediatric medicine.

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. Pediatric Bioethics addresses those difficult ethical questions concerning the clinical and academic practice of pediatrics.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.

'A useful resource to be dipped in and out of for practitioners involved in the care of children from birth through to adolescent years.' Nursing Standard

ISBN: 9780521135948

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 410g

304 pages