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Death or Disability?

By Wilkinson

Death or Disability? Medicine

Death or Disability?

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Description
In ancient Rome parents would consult the priestess Carmentis shortly after birth to obtain prophecies of the future of their newborn infant. Today, parents and doctors of critically ill children consult a different oracle. Neuroimaging provides a vision of the child's future, particularly of the nature and severity of any disability. Based on the results of brain scans and other tests doctors and parents face heart-breaking decisions about whether or not to continueintensive treatment or to allow the child to die.Paediatrician and ethicist Dominic Wilkinson looks at the profound and contentious ethical issues facing those who work in intensive care caring for critically ill children and infants. When should infants or children be allowed to die? How accurate are predictions of future quality of life? How much say should parents have in these decisions? How should they deal with uncertainty about the future? He combines philosophy, medicine and science to shed light on current and futuredilemmas.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
320
Release Date:
2013-03-01
Publication Date:
2019-10-08
Publisher:
Oxford University Press (UK)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199669430
ISBN13:
9780199669431
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
646 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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