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Title When doctors and parents disagree : ethics, paediatrics and the zone of parental discretion / editors: Rosalind McDougall, Clare Delany, Lynn Gillam
Published Annandale, NSW : The Federation Press, [2016]
Annandale, NSW : The Federation Press, 2016
©2016

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Description x, 261 pages : illustrations, charts ; 21 cm
Contents Part 1: An ethical tool: the zone of parental discretion -- Part 2: Roles of doctors and parents in decision-making -- Part 3: Clinicians encountering parental refusals -- Part 4: Clinicians encountering parental requests for treatment -- Part 5: Clinicians encountering parental requests for interventions on healthy children
Summary "In paediatrics, clinicians and parents sometimes disagree about the appropriate medical treatment for a child. Parents can prefer an option that differs from the clinician's recommendation. When should the parents' decision about their child's medical treatment be overridden? This book explores ethical decision-making when clinicians and parents disagree about medical treatment for a child. It develops and explores a concept called the zone of parental discretion: an ethical tool that aims to balance children's wellbeing and parents' rights to make medical decisions for their children. Written by experienced clinical ethicists and paediatric clinicians, this book offers ethical analysis and practical guidance based on real-life clinical cases. It aims to assist doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and clinical ethics staff to deal with these ethically challenging situations. The book is divided into five parts: 1. An ethical tool: the zone of parental discretion 2. Roles of doctors and parents in decision-making 3. Clinicians encountering parental refusals 4. Clinicians encountering parental requests for treatment 5. Clinicians encountering parental requests for interventions on healthy children."--Publisher
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Child health services -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Children -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Decision making.
Children -- Diseases -- Treatment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Discretion.
Medical care -- Decision making.
Medical ethics.
Parent and child.
Pediatrics -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Child Health Services -- ethics.
Decision Making -- ethics.
Child.
Parental Consent -- ethics.
Parental Notification -- ethics.
Child Health Services -- ethics.
SUBJECT Australia. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001315
Author Delany, Clare, editor
Gillam, Lynn, editor
McDougall, Rosalind, 1977- editor
ISBN 1760020591 (paperback)
9781760020590
Other Titles Ethics, paediatrics and the zone of parental discretion
Ethics, pediatrics and the zone of parental discretion