1st Edition
Critically Impaired Infants and End of Life Decision Making Resource Allocation and Difficult Decisions
By Neera Bhatia
Copyright 2015
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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Decisions to withdraw or withhold life-sustaining treatment are contentious, and offer difficult moral dilemmas to both medical practitioners and the judiciary. This issue is exacerbated when the patient is unable to exercise autonomy and is entirely dependent on the will of others.
This book focuses on the legal and ethical complexities surrounding end of life decisions for critically... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The effectiveness of the best interests principle 3. Non-uniformity in clinical guidelines 4. The role, impact and importance of key care givers and decision makers 5. Theories of distributive justice: Healthcare and extremely premature and critically impaired infants 6. Resource allocation: An objective approach in end of life decision making for extremely premature and critically impaired infants 7. Other observations and concluding remarks　
Biography
Neera Bhatia is a Lecturer at the Deakin University School of Law, Australia
