Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making

ISBN-13: 9780198237631 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 216 str.

Lainie Friedman Ross; Lainie Friedman Ross

Opis

Ross here presents an original and controversial look at the moral pri nciples that guide parents in making health care decisions for their c hildren, and the role of children in the decision-making process. She opposes the current movement to increase child autonomy, in favor of r espect for family autonomy and proposes significant changes in what in formed consent allows and requires for pediatric health care decisions . The first systematic medical ethics book that focuses specifically o n children's health care, Ross's work has important things to say to h ealth care providers who work with children as well as to ethicists an d public policy analysts.

Recenzje

There is much in this book that should provide material for lively discussion and debate about who ought to have authority to make health care decisions for children and how far this authority extends ... the balance of theory and application in the book ought to make it interesting reading for bioethicists and health professionals alike.

O autorze

Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, and Assistant Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, at the University of Chicago. After taking her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and doing her residency in children's and babies' hospitals in Philadelphia and New York City, she took a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Yale. She has been on the faculty at the University of Chicago since 1994.