Children, Medicine and the Law

By: Michael Freeman (Editor)

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Hardcover | 28 January 2005

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Selected for inclusion in this volume are the most significant and influential articles analyzing the key issues surrounding children, medicine and the law today. Issues examined include: the implications of assisted reproduction for children, neonatal intensive care, health care, HIV testing of new-born children, choosing sexual orientation and adolescents and life-and-death decisions.

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'...a welcome contribution...shines light on many of the ethical dilemmas that arise when treating children.' The Journal of Legal Medicine

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Assisted Reproduction: Its Implications for Children: Market inalienability
Give me children or I shall die! New reproductive technologies and harm to children
Human cloning and child welfare
The best interests of the child in assisted human reproduction: the interplay between the state, professionals and parents
Sex Selection: Book review of Gendercide: the Implications of Sex Selection
A reply to Holmes on Gendercide
Preconception gender selection
Choosing the Sexual Orientation of Children: Choosing the sexual orientation of children
Prenatal diagnosis: whose right?
Wrongful Life and Death: Moral obligations to the not-yet-born: the fetus as patient
Wrongful life and the counterfactual element in harming
The wrong of wrongful life
When is birth unfair to the child?
Prenatal wrongful death
Genetic dilemmas and the child's right to an open future
The Newborn's Status: Delivering hydrocephalic fetuses
Defective Newborn Children: Deciding for imperilled newborns: medical authority or parental autonomy? Hazel E. McHaffie
Moral and ethical dilemmas in the special-care nursery
Neonatal viability in the 1990s: held hostage by technology
Neonatal Intensive Care: Neonatal intensive care: parents' role in ethical decision making
Interdependence and reintegrative social control: labeling and reforming 'inappropriate' parents in neonatal intensive care
HIV Testing of Newborn Children: An argument for universal paediatric HIV testing, counseling and treatment
Mandatory screening of newborns for HIV: and idea whose time has not yet come
Children as Donors: Should foetuses or infants be utilized as organ donors?
Justice for children: the child as organ donor
Rethinking transplantation between siblings
Role of a child advocate in the selection of donors for pediatric bone marrow transplantation
Procreation for donation: the moral and political permissibility of 'having a child to save a child'
Conjoined Twins: The ethics of caring for conjoined twins: the Lakeberg twins
Human beings, persons and conjoined twins: an ethical analysis of the judgment in Re A
Decisions about Health Care: The best interests standard as threshold, ideal and standard of reasonableness
Everyday and medical life choices: decision making among 8- to 15-year-old school students
Coercion or caring: analysing adolescent autonomy
Health care decision making by children: is it in their best interests?
Disclosure and consent problems in pediatrics
When adolescents 'mismanage' their chronic medical conditions: an ethical exploration
The Competence of Children: What do you say to a child with AIDS?
The competency of children and adolescents to make informed treatment decisions
Reasoning about illness in ill and healthy children and adolescents: cognitive and emotional developmental aspects
In the genes or in the stars? Children's competence to consent
Adolescents and life or Death Decisions: Affirming the decisions adolescents make about life and death
Children as Subjects of Research: Research with children
Children's concepts of research hospitalization
The enforcement of morals: nontherapeutic research on children
Prophylactic interventions on children: balancing human rights with public health
Is it in a neonate's best interest to enter a randomized controlled trial?
Genetic Testing of Children: Testing children for genetic predispositions: is it in their best interest?
Children's Rights to Health Care: Do children's rights to health care in the UK ensure their best interests?
Children's rights to health care
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