Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making

Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making
ISBN-10
0198237634
ISBN-13
9780198237631
Category
Family & Relationships
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Lainie Friedman Ross

Description

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.

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