An edition of Death or Disability? (2013)
Death or Disability?
The 'Carmentis Machine' and Decision-Making for Critically Ill Children
By Dominic Wilkinson
Publish Date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Language
eng
Pages
324
Description:
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.
subjects: Children with disabilities, Critical care medicine, Medical ethics, Power over Life and death, Moral and ethical aspects, Care, Medical care, Decision making, Assisted Suicide, Ethics, Child, Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary, Infant, Neonatal Intensive Care, Neuroimaging, Disabled Children, Critical Care, Intensive Care, Withholding Treatment, Bioethical Issues