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PRIMUM NON NOCERE TODAY
Primum Non Nocere TodaySecond Edition

Edited by
G.R. Burgio, University of Pavia, Department of Pediatrics, Italy
J.D. Lantos, University of Chicago, Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and La Rabida Children's Hospital and Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, USA

Included in series
International Congress, 1171

Description
Primum non nocere (above all, do no harm)...although this maxim has existed for over twenty five centuries, its context is still applicable today. It is in this concept that the book essentially aims for ethical considerations concerning advanced biotechnologies or advanced prospects in pediatric culture. The second edition introduces new subjects and updates the traditional issues of discipline to a growing field of application beyond the original confines inspired by new technologies which are capable of changing life in its duration, in its quality in terms of health.

Pediatricians cope everyday with bioethical problems. Today, it appears indispensable to know and ponder the bioethical effects of these problems in order to achieve the most dignified and compassionate qualification of pediatric professionalism.

Audience
Paediatricians

Contents


Preface. List of main contributors.
"Primum non nocere" ("above all, do no harm"), today (G.R. Burgio). The ethics of pediatrics and the ill child in history (D. v.Engelhardt). Viewing bioethics from an anthropological viewpoint (M. Callari Galli). Primum non nocere in paediatrics (R. Gillon). Ethical issues in the vaccination of children (D.S. Diekema, E.K. Marcuse). Primum non nocere: prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion (A. Boué). To do or not to do: the ethics of neonatal care (C. Versluys). Children as organ donors: an argument for involuntary altruism (J.D. Lantos). Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in pediatric practice: a bioethical reassessment (G.R. Burgio, L. Nespoli, F. Locatelli). Evidence and ethical based child health: update on therapeutic trials in children (M. Bonati, S. Garattini). General remarks on the ethical problems of pediatric research (F. Sereni, A. Selicorni). Ethical consequences of genetic prediction (M. Siegler). Children and cancer genes: ethical issues (E. Kodish). Gene therapy: current status, perspectives and problematic issues (F. Candotti, L.D. Notarangelo, A.G. Ugazio). Beneficience, virtues, and ethical committees in pediatrics: epidstemology, bioethics and medical pedagogy in pediatrics (S. Nordio). Bioethics and the relationships between biomedicine and society: lessons from pediatrics bioethics (G. Corbellini).

Index of authors.


Subject index.


Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 190 pages, publication date: NOV-1998
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-82923-8
ISBN-10: 0-444-82923-7
Imprint: EXCERPTA MEDICA

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