Neera Bhatia

Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making

Resource Allocation and Difficult Decisions

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Produktbeschreibung

This book focuses on the legal and ethical complexities surrounding end of life decisions for critically impaired and extremely premature infants. Neera Bhatia explores arbitrary decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment from critically impaired infants and addresses the controversial question, which lives are too expensive to treat? Bringing to bare such key issues as clinical guidance, public awareness, and resource allocation, the book provides a rational approach to end of life decision making, where decisions to withdraw or withhold treatment may trump other competing interests.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781138828483
• ISBN-10: 1138828483
• Artikelnr.: 41754945

Autorenporträt

Neera Bhatia is a Lecturer at the Deakin University School of Law, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The effectiveness of the best interests principle 3.
Non-uniformity in clinical guidelines 4. The role, impact and importance of
key care givers and decision makers 5. Theories of distributive justice:
Healthcare and extremely premature and critically impaired infants 6.
Resource allocation: An objective approach in end of life decision making
for extremely premature and critically impaired infants 7. Other
observations and concluding remarks