Primum non nocere today : a symposium on pediatric bioethics : proceedings of the International Symposium on Pediatric Bioethics, Pavia, 26-28 May 1994
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Primum non nocere today : a symposium on pediatric bioethics : proceedings of the International Symposium on Pediatric Bioethics, Pavia, 26-28 May 1994
（International congress series, no. 1071）
Elsevier, 1994
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The current climate is characterized by technological advancement, especially in the field of medicine. Aggressive therapies and the manipulation of life are now commonly applied to children, often including neonates or infants, and in any case to children who cannot express their consent. The boldest therapies often entail some risks; accordingly all these "medical problems" may indeed by viewed as "problematic medicine". Does the maxim "primum non nocere" still dominate undisputedly in this medicine? Should one consider reservations to this maxim, in order to limit it or even offer alternatives? This book discusses these issues and deals, among other subjects, with prenatal diagnosis, assistance to risk neonates, organ and bone marrow transplants, gene therapy, therapeutic trials, and testing on minors, but also considers problems in organization and in active social, didactic, and (in the broadest sense) cultural approaches.
Without neglecting basic bioethical problems - from the risk/benefit balance to informed consent in pediatrics - this book should satisfy the interest of pediatricians in particular, but also of forensic specialists, scholars of medical humanities, and of whoever deals, in culture, with the child and in favour of the child.
Table of Contents
- "Primum non nocere" (above all, do no harm), today, G.R. Burgio
- primum non nocere today - new issues in pediatric bioethics
- the other viewpoint - the risk of overtreatment, M. Mori
- 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
- primum non nocere - prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion, A. Boue
- 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
- bone marrow transplantation in children - between "primum non nocere" (above all, do no harm) and "primum adiuvare" (above all, help), G.R. Burgio et al
- the consent of the minor as bone marrow donor in European community countries, F. Buzzi and M.C. Oppezzo
- therapeutic trials in children, M. Bonati and S. Garattini
- general remarks on the ethical problems of pediatric research, F. Sereni and A. Selicorni
- ethical consequences of genetic prediction, M. Siegler
- foreseeable applications of gene therapy into somatic and germinal cells, L.D. Notarangelo et al
- teaching bioethics to medical students - questions, comments, proposals, P. Cattorini
- beneficience, the pediatrician virtues, the ethical committees, S. Nordio
- pediatric bioethics - ethical principles for organization and functioning of pediatric services, E. Guzzanti et al
- bioethics and the relationship between biomedicine and society - lessons from pediatrics bioethics, G. Corbellini. (Part Contents).
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