Choosing for Children

Parents' Consent to Surgery

Priscilla Alderson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

274 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-42748-5 (ISBN)

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One mother described part of the complications of consenting to her one-week-old child’s high-risk heart surgery.

‘I can’t imagine her being any more precious to me than she is now. I can hardly bear feeling so close to her as it is…I can’t wait until I see her again. It’s worse than being in love.’

Can emotional parents be rational enough to give informed proxy consent? Research observations and interviews with many parents and practitioners in the wards, clinics and medical meetings in two London hospitals show how parents’ moral emotions of fear and hope are central to their informed decision-making and voluntary consent.

This record from the 1980s offers useful historical comparisons with today’s paediatric cardiac services in both the remarkable progress over nearly 40 years and the continuing concerns.

Priscilla Alderson

New Preface Medical terms 1. Introduction 2. Consent in the wards 3. Consent in the clinics 4. Medical decisions: the medical background to consent 5. Professional team-work 6. Informed consent: awareness 7. Voluntary consent: willingness 8. Trust between doctors and families 9. Ethical medicine and bioethics 10. Proxy consent Notes Index of children Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Revivals
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	700 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	1-032-42748-5 / 1032427485
ISBN-13	978-1-032-42748-5 / 9781032427485
Zustand	Neuware