Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making (Issues in Biomedical Ethics)

Book info: Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making (Issues in Biomedical Ethics) (Hardcover, 212 pages) – Clarendon Press, 1999. Language: English.

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. Editorial Reviews Review `worth reading, worth discussing and .. worth prescribing for students of children's rights, medical law and bioethics.' The International Journal of Children's Rights 8`This is an important book. The issues it raise will not go away. The book is an invigorating read.' The International Journal of Children's Rights 8`a valuable contribution to the debates. It certainly should be read by everyone interested in children's rights.' The International Journal of Children's Rights 8`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 in the book ought to make it interesting reading for bioethicists and health professionals alike.' Jeffrey Blustein, Bioethics. About the Author Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Department of dPediatrics and Medicine, and Assistant Director of the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, at the University of Chicago.