Pediatric Bioethics

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052113594X
• ISBN13: 9780521135948
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"