Children And Health Care Moral and Social Issues /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kopelman, Loretta M. (Editor), Moskop, John C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1989.
• Series: Philosophy and Medicine ; 33
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Internal medicine.; Pediatrics.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Internal Medicine.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
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Before a separate Department of Medical Humanities was formed, the editors of this volume were faculty members of the Department of Pediatrics at our medical school. Colleagues daily spoke of the moral and social problems of children's health care. Our offices were near the examining rooms wher...

Table of Contents:

• ChildrenỚ"s Health as a Social and Political Issue
• Child Health and Public Policy
• Comments on Barbara StarfieldỚ"s Ớ<U+00dc>Child Health and Public PolicyỚ"
• Development of the U.S. Federal Role in ChildrenỚ"s Health Care: A Critical Appraisal
• American Social and Political Thought and the Federal Role in Child Health Care
• Children as Research Subjects
• When is the Risk Minimal Enough for Children to be Research Subjects?
• Children, Illness, and Death
• Death and ChildrenỚ"S Literature: CharlotteỚ"s Web and the Dying Child
• Charlotte the Spider, Socrates, and the Problem of Evil
• ChildrenỚ"s Conceptions of Illness and Death
• Terminally Ill Children and Treatment Choices: a Reply to Gareth Matthews
• ChildrenỚ"s and ParentsỚ" Roles in Medical Decisionmaking
• Children and Adolescents: Their Right to Decide About Their Own Health Care
• Children and Health Care Decisionmaking: A Reply to Angela Holder
• ChildrenỚ"s Competence for Health Care Decisionmaking
• Consent and Decisional Authority in ChildrenỚ"s Health Care Decisionmaking: A Reply to Dan Brock
• Questions Parents Should Resist
• Taking the Family Seriously: Beyond Best Interests
• The PediatricianỚ"s Role: Theory and Practice
• ỚSNot Miniature Men and WomenỚ<U+00fd>: Abraham JacobiỚ"s Vision of a New Medical Specialty a Century Ago
• The Development of Pediatrics as a Specialty
• The Good Doctor and the Medical Care of Children
• Comments on John LaddỚ"s Ớ<U+00dc>the Good Doctor and the Medical Care of ChildrenỚ"
• Government by Case Anecdote or Case Advocacy: A PediatricianỚ"s View
• Advocacy: Some Reflections on an Ambiguous Term
• Loving the Chronically Ill Child: A PediatricianỚ"s Perspective
• Love and the Physician: A Reply to Thomas Irons.