Dominic Wilkinson (University of Adelaide)

Death or Disability?: The 'Carmentis Machine' and Decision-Making for Critically Ill Children

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Produktbeschreibung

Dominic Wilkinson combines philosophy, medicine, and science to explore the profound and contentious ethical issues facing those who work with critically ill children and infants. He addresses questions about the accuracy of predictions for future quality of life; about when to allow children to die; and about how much say parents should have.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780198799054
• ISBN-10: 0198799055
• Artikelnr.: 47867508

Autorenporträt

Dominic Wilkinson is Professor of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, research fellow at Jesus College, and a consultant neonatologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1: The temple of Carmentis 30AD
Prologue 2: The Carmentis Machine: 2030 AD
Introduction: Neuroethics and intensive care
Section A
1: Destiny, disability, and death
2: Best interests and the Carmentis machine
3: Starting again
4: Competing interests
Section B
5: Sources of Uncertainty--prognostic research
6: Managing uncertainty
7: Interests and uncertainty
8: The Threshold framework
Index