Children, ethics, and modern medicine /

Children, ethics, and modern medicine /

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Author / Creator:Miller, Richard B.
Imprint:Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2003.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages)
Language:English
Series:Medical ethics
Medical ethics series.
Subject:
Pediatrics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Children -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethics, Clinical.
Pediatrics.
Ethics, Medical.
Child.
Decision Making.
Parents.
Paternalism.
Personal Autonomy.
Children -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Pediatrics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11138023
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ISBN:0253109922
9780253109927
0253342228
9780253342225
1282072145
9781282072145
9786612072147
6612072148
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:[Utilizing 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 cont.
Other form:Print version: Miller, Richard B. Children, ethics, and modern medicine. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2003 0253342228
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Moral Contours
  • 1. Parental Responsibility in Fear and Trembling
  • 2. The Duty to Care
  • 3. Pediatric Paternalism
  • 4. Representing Patients
  • 5. Basic Interests
  • Part II. Practical Cases
  • 6. A Fighter, Doing God's Will: Technologically Tethered, Retaining Fluids, on Steroids, Sedated, and Four Years Old
  • 7. Respecting Jackson Bales's Religious Refusal: On What Grounds?
  • 8. Ericka's Sepsis, Lia's Convulsions, and Cultural Differences
  • 9. (Properly) Marginalized Altruism: Screening Kidney Donations from Strangers
  • 10. The Politics and Ethics of a Hospital Ethics Committee
  • 11. Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research
  • Conclusion: On Liberal Care
  • Notes
  • Index

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