Ethics In Pediatrics: Achieving Excellence When Helping Children

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This book offers easy access to the everyday ethics problems that occur in the medical care of children. It contains practical guidance on how physicians and other healthcare practitioners may manage both straightforward and complex ethics problems. The book provides a readable and comprehensive introduction to ethics issues for beginners and is also extremely valuable to experienced practitioners.This work covers important "classical" ethical issues such as privacy, confidentiality, truth telling, and discusses the elements of the relationships that might exist between parents and healthcare providers. However, the book also provides a resource for new and emerging areas of bioethics. These include issues arising in the new population of children who are beginning to survive the neonatal and infant periods with a multitude of problems – “children with medical complexity". Finally, it also includes a section on the advantages and pitfalls of social media use. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 What Is My Medical Specialty All About? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 3-48 What Are the Boundaries Between My Role, Children and Parents, and Others Involved in Pediatrics? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 49-61 How Can I Receive Help with Ethics Issues? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 63-76 Front Matter ....Pages 77-77 How Do I Know from Whom I Need Permission and When I Have It? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 79-116 What Goes in the Chart and Who Can See It? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 117-159 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 What Happened Before Birth and How Is This Relevant to the Child Now? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 163-195 I Think Someone Has or Is Deliberating Harming This Child. I Think There Is Neglect of the Child. Help! (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 197-217 What Are my Roles in the Many Issues that Arise with Children Who Are Described as Being Medically Complex? How Do I Help in the Long-Term Care of These Fragile Children, Whether in Hospital, At Home, At School or in Long Term Residential Care? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 219-261 What Can I Do to Advocate for this Child, and for Children Like Him or Her? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 263-281 When and How Do I Stop Certain Treatments, Accepting That Death Is Near? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 283-311 Misunderstandings and Disagreements (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 313-335 Front Matter ....Pages 337-337 Oh No! I Saw a Mistake, or I Made a Mistake (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 339-357 Questions About Research Involving Children (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 359-389 Working with Adolescents (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 391-418 Why Is There So Much Talk About Cost in Health Care Today? (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 419-440 Front Matter ....Pages 441-441 Conclusion: Looking Toward the Future (Ian Mitchell, Juliet R. Guichon)....Pages 443-455