Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making
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Ross here presents an original and controversial look at the moral principles that guide parents in making health care decisions for their children, and the role of children in the decision-making process. She opposes the current movement to increase child autonomy, in favor of respect for family autonomy and proposes significant changes in what informed consent allows and requires for pediatric health care decisions. The first systematic medical ethics book that focuses specifically on children's health care, Ross's work has important things to say to health care providers who work with children as well as to ethicists and public policy analysts.Reviews
"Will surely spark lively debate around our cultural assumptions about individual autonomy, the role of families in society, and our responsibilities to children. ... Ross's book is a welcome contribution to emerging debates about health-care issues involving children"--National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly
" . . . strongly recommend[ed] to anyone who wants to gain valuable insight into the ethical issues involving the child as a research subject, as an organ donor, as a patient, and as a sexually active adolescent."-Laurence D. Houlgate, Ethics
About the Author(s)
Lainie Friedman Ross, Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, and Assistant Director of the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago
