Death or disability? : the 'Carmentis Machine' and decision-making for critically ill children /

Dominic Wilkinson combines philosophy, medicine, and science to explore the profound and contentious ethical issues facing those who work with critically ill children and infants. He addresses questions about the accuracy of predictions for future quality of life; about when to allow children to die...

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'Carmentis Machine' and decision-making for critically ill children
1. Verfasser:
Wilkinson, Dominic
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Zusammenfassung:
Dominic Wilkinson combines philosophy, medicine, and science to explore the profound and contentious ethical issues facing those who work with critically ill children and infants. He addresses questions about the accuracy of predictions for future quality of life; about when to allow children to die; and about how much say parents should have.
Umfang:
1 online resource (vi, 311 pages) : illustrations
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographies and index.
ISBN:
1-283-96089-3
0-19-164821-3
Schlagworte:
Newborn infants > Treatment > Moral and ethical aspects.
Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects.
Infanticide > Moral and ethical aspects.
Life and death, Power over > Moral and ethical aspects.
Children with disabilities > Care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Children with disabilities > Medical care.
Critical care medicine > Decision making.
Critical care medicine > Moral and ethical aspects.
Assisted suicide.
Suicide, Assisted > ethics.
Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary > ethics.
Decision Making > ethics.
Intensive Care, Neonatal > ethics.
Neuroimaging > ethics.
Infant. > NLM-D007223
Child. > NLM-D002648
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