Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics Cases and Commentaries [Paperback]

This collection of cases and commentaries highlights ethical dilemmas arising during high-tech hospital care of seriously ill children.This collection of cases and commentaries in pediatrics highlights the difficult ethical dilemmas that can arise during high-tech hospital care of children in precarious circumstances. It serves as a teaching tool for clinical ethics and as an introduction for medical students and residents.This collection of cases and commentaries in pediatrics highlights the difficult ethical dilemmas that can arise during high-tech hospital care of children in precarious circumstances. It serves as a teaching tool for clinical ethics and as an introduction for medical students and residents.Children in precarious health present particular problems for healthcare professionals because of their intimate relation to their family, and because of the family's need to provide major long-term source of support and to be actively involved in the decisions about their children's care. This collection of cases and commentaries in pediatrics highlights the difficult ethical dilemmas that can arise during high-tech hospital care of children in precarious circumstances. It serves as a teaching tool for clinical ethics and as an introduction for medical students and residents. Clinical cases are described in detail by the physicians involved, who focus on the ethical issues arising during treatment. Each case is then commented on in detail by a philosopher or other bioethicist. It thus serves well as an introduction to contemporary clinical bioethics, but with a firm grounding in the practicalities of real-life pediatric care in the hospital setting.Part I. Therapeutic Misalliances: 1a. Unconventional medicine in the pediatric intensive care unit Chester Randle; 1b. Role of responsibility in pediatrics: appeasing or transforming parental demands? Richard B. Miller; 2a. The extremely premature infant at the crossroads Ronald Cohen, Eugene Kim; 2b. The extremely l31