Publisher's Synopsis
This collection of essays by a group of international scholars focuses on specific issues in bioethics and paediatrics. It reflects interdisciplinary approaches to practical problems at the level of policy and practice.;The book includes essays on the issues of: withholding life-sustaining treatment from children; the societal expense of innovative lifesaving treatments; the rights of mature minors; the notion of non-treatment as blame-worthy neglect; and the responsibility of professionals in bioethics and paediatrics to continue to converse thoughtfully and faithfully on these issues.
