Pediatric Bioethics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521517980)

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: Geoffrey Miller
ISBN-10: 0521517982
ISBN-13: 9780521517980
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/23/2009
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d