Death or Disability? : The 'Carmentis Machine' and Decision-Making for Critically Ill Children
ISBN: 9780199669431 | 0199669430
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/1/2013
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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.
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 cr... MORE
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 cr... MORE
| Prologue 1: The temple of Carmentis 30AD | |
| Prologue 2: The Carmentis Machine: 2030 AD | |
| Introduction: Neuroethics and intensive care | |
| Destiny, disability, and death | |
| Best interests and the Carmentis machine | |
| Starting again | |
| Competing interests | |
| Sources of Uncertainty--prognostic research | |
| Managing uncertainty | |
| Interests and uncertainty | |
| The Threshold framework | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Dominic Wilkinson is Associate Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Adelaide, and a senior research associate of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He has worked as a doctor in neonatal, paediatric and adult intensive care, and is currently consultant neonatologist at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide. He has a DPhil in medical ethics from the University of Oxford, and has written a large number of academic articles relating to ethical issues in intensive care.
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