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Death or Disability?

Death or Disability?

The 'Carmentis Machine' and decision-making for critically ill children

9780198799054
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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 childs 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 intensivetreatment or to allow the child to die. Paediatrician and ethicist Dominic Wilkinson looks at the profound and contentious ethical issues facing those who work in intensive care caring for critically ill children and infants. When should infants or children be allowed to die? How accurate are predictions of future quality of life? How much say should parents have in these decisions? How should they deal with uncertainty about the future? He combines philosophy, medicine and science to shed light on current and futuredilemmas.
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OUP Oxford
87888
9780198799054
9780198799054

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Publication date
2017
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
320
Dimensions (mm)
156 x 234
Weight (g)
486
  • Prologue 1: The temple of Carmentis 30AD; Prologue 2: The Carmentis Machine: 2030 AD; Introduction: Neuroethics and intensive care; Section A; Destiny, disability, and death; Best interests and the Carmentis machine; Starting again; Competing interests; Section B; Sources of Uncertainty-prognostic research; Managing uncertainty; Interests and uncertainty; The Threshold framework; Index;
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