Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making - Couverture souple

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Bhatia, Neera

 
9781138704770: Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making
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ISBN 10 : 1138704776 ISBN 13 : 9781138704770
Editeur : Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious, and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the judiciary. This issue is exacerbated when the patient is unable to exercise autonomy and is entirely dependent on the will of others.

This book focuses on the legal and ethical complexities surrounding end of life decisions for critically impaired and extremely premature infants. Neera Bhatia explores 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 bear 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.

The book will be of great interest and use to scholars and students of bioethics, medical law, and medical practitioners.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138704776
ISBN 13 
9781138704770
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1138828483 ISBN 13 :  9781138828483
Editeur : Routledge, 2015
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