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Death or Disability?: The ´Carmentis Machine´ and decision-making for critically ill children
Professor Dominic Wilkinson
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Description for Death or Disability?: The ´Carmentis Machine´ and decision-making for critically ill children
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
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 critically ill children consult a different oracle. Neuroimaging provides a vision of the child's future, particularly of the nature and severity of any disability. Based on the results of brain scans and other tests doctors and parents face heart-breaking decisions about whether or not to continue intensive treatment or to allow the child to die. Paediatrician and ethicist Dominic Wilkinson looks at the profound and contentious ethical issues ... Read 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 critically ill children consult a different oracle. Neuroimaging provides a vision of the child's future, particularly of the nature and severity of any disability. Based on the results of brain scans and other tests doctors and parents face heart-breaking decisions about whether or not to continue intensive treatment or to allow the child to die. Paediatrician and ethicist Dominic Wilkinson looks at the profound and contentious ethical issues ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198799054
SKU
V9780198799054
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About Professor Dominic Wilkinson
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.
Reviews for Death or Disability?: The ´Carmentis Machine´ and decision-making for critically ill children
The author skilfully draws on his training in philosophy, bioscience and clinical practice to offer an analysis that is original, not merely in content but also in form. Wilkinsons comparison of the Carmentis Machine with contemporary neuroimaging is inspired.
Deborah Bowman, Times Higher Education Supplement
this was an interesting read, comprehensive, analytical, and thought-provoking . . . Wilkinson ... Read more
Deborah Bowman, Times Higher Education Supplement
this was an interesting read, comprehensive, analytical, and thought-provoking . . . Wilkinson ... Read more