Children, Ethics, and Modern Medicine

List of contents

Introduction

Part I. Moral Contours

1. Parental Responsibility in Fear and Trembling

2. The Duty to Care

3. Pediatric Paternalism

4. Representing Patients

5. Basic Interests

Part II. Practical Cases

6. A Fighter, Doing God's Will: Technologically Tethered, Retaining

Fluids, on Steroids, Sedated, and Four Years Old

7. Respecting Jackson Bales's Religious Refusal: On What Grounds?

8. Ericka's Sepsis, Lia's Convulsions, and Cultural Differences

9. (Properly) Marginalized Altruism: Screening Kidney Donations from

Strangers

10. The Politics and Ethics of a Hospital Ethics Committee

11. Ethical Issues in Pediatric Research

Conclusion: On Liberal Care

Notes

Index

About the author

Richard B. Miller is Director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions and Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author of Interpretations of Conflict: Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition (1991) and Casuistry and Modern Ethics: A Poetics of Practical Reasoning (1996). He has edited War in the Twentieth Century: Sources in Theological Ethics (1993) and has written articles in social philosophy and religious ethics.

Product details

• Authors: Richard B Miller, Richard B. Miller
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.06.2003
• EAN: 9780253342225
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34222-5
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 240 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 644 g
• Series: Indiana University Press; Medical Ethics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General