Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making

ISBN-13: 9780199251544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 216 str.

Lainie Friedman Ross

Opis

Ross here presents an original and controversial look at the moral principles that guide parents in making health care decisions for their children, and the role of children in the decision-making process. She opposes the current movement to increase child autonomy, in favor of respect for family autonomy and proposes significant changes in what informed consent allows and requires for pediatric health care decisions. The first systematic medical ethics book that focuses specifically on children's health care, Ross's work has important things to say to health care providers who work with children as well as to ethicists and 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 ... 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.