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Core issues in clinical pediatric ethics -- Pediatric decision-making: informed consent, parental permission, and child assent / Yoram Unguru -- Pediatric decision-making: adolescent patients / Emily C. Goodlander and Jessica Wilen Berg -- Parental refusal of recommended medical interventions / Douglas S. Diekema -- Adolescent confidentiality / Malcolm Parker -- Refusals of intervention in adolescents and young adults / Maureen Kelley -- Family beliefs and the medical care of children / Roger Worthington and Mark R. Mercurio -- Fidelity and truthfulness in the pediatric setting: withholding information from children and adolescents / Christine Harrison -- Fidelity and truthfulness: disclosure of errors / David J. Loren and Thomas H. Gallagher -- Requests for 'non-therapeutic' interventions in children: male circumcision / E. Charlisse Caga-anan and Anthony J. Thomas -- Ethical issues at the beginning of life: perinatology and neonatology -- Maternal-fetal conflicts / Christy L. Cummings and Mark R. Mercurio -- Fetal interventions and fetal care centers / Steven Leuthner -- Ripped from the headlines: assisted reproductive technology and multiple births / Jeffrey Ecker and Howard Minkoff -- Preimplantation and prenatal genetic testing for inherited diseases, dispositions, and traits / Jeffrey R. Botkin -- Decision-making in the delivery room / Mark R. Mercurio -- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining intervention from neonates / Andrew C. Beckstrom and David E. Woodrum -- Role of quality of life assessments in neonatal care / John Wyatt -- Variations of practice in the care of extremely preterm infants / Annie Janvier and John D. Lantos -- When a child dies: ethical issues at the end of life -- End-of-life care: resolving disputes over life-sustaining interventions / Kelly Michelson and Joel Frader -- Futility / Norman Fost -- Advance directives and DNR orders / Jeffrey P. Burns and Christine Mitchell -- Determination of death / Geoffrey Miller -- Physician-assisted dying in children / Alexander A. Kon -- Groningen protocol / A.A. Eduard Verhagen and John D. Lantos -- Defining beneficience in the face of death: symptom management in dying children / Marcia Levetown -- Ethical issues posed by advances in medical technology and science -- Miners as recipients and donors in solid organ transplantation / Aviva M. Goldberg and Joel Frader -- Enhancement technologies and children / Jennifer C. Kesselheim -- Cochlear implants and deaf children / Halle Showalter Salas -- Ethical issues in the treatment of pediatric patients with disorders of sex development / Rebecca M. Harris and Joel Frader -- Sterilizing procedures in minors with cognitive disabilities / Donald Brunnquell -- Parental requests for intervention in children with lethal conditions / Benjamin S. Wilfond and John C. Carey -- Genetic testing and screening of minors / Lainie Friedman Ross -- Introduction of innovative technology into practice / John D. Lantos -- Human subjects research involving children / Valerie Blake and Eric Kodish -- Children, public health and justice -- Resource allocation and triage in disasters and pandemics / Jeffrey P. Burns and Christine Mitchell -- Parental refusals of vaccination and school vaccine mandates: balancing parental freedom, child welfare, and public health / Douglas Opel and Douglas S. Diekema -- When institutional, professional, and public health obligations conflict: the controversial case of youth boxing / Stephayna B. Shear, Carolyn Korfiatis, and Douglas S. Diekema -- Special topics in pediatric ethics -- Industry representatives, gift-giving, and conflicts of interest / Ellen L. Blank and D. Micah Hester -- Patient participation in medical training / Armand H. Matheny Antommaria -- Boundary issues in pediatrics / Ian R. Holzman -- Impaired, incompentent, or unethical provider / Jennifer Guon and Douglas S. Diekema -- Ethics committees and consultation services.

This volume provides a practical overview of the ethical issues arising in pediatric practice. The case-based approach grounds the bioethical concepts in real-life situations, covering a broad range of important and controversial topics, including informed consent, confidentiality, truthfulness and fidelity, ethical issues relating to perinatology and neonatology, end-of-life issues, new technologies, and problems of justice and public health in pediatrics. A dedicated section also addresses the topics of professionalism, including boundary issues, conflicts of interests and relationships with industry, ethical issues arising during training, and dealing with the impaired or unethical colleague. Each chapter contains a summary of the key issues covered and recommendations for approaching similar situations in other contexts. Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-Based Textbook is an essential resource for all physicians who care for children, as well as medical educators, residents and scholars in clinical bioethics.