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Ethics in Child Health: Principles and Cases in Neurodisability , by Rosenbaum Peter L. , Ronen Gabriel M. , Dan Bernard , Johannesen Jennifer , and Racine Eric . London : MacKeith Press Publisher ; 2016. 369 pp.
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regarding books they would like to see reviewed or books they are interested in reviewing.Challenges in clinical ethics typically arise when one or more of three instances occur in practice: (1) technological innovation enables novel diagnostic or therapeutic advances, (2) a vulnerable population is encountered, or (3) conflict arises among value systems or interests held by the parties involved in care. All three of these instances are often at play currently in our efforts to provide care to individuals, especially children, with neurodevelopmental disabilities.
Multiple transformations have occurred in society and the practice of medicine that task the healthcare provider, actively impacting the goal of ethical practice. These include: altered conceptualizations of health and disability and their determinants, moral and legal recognition of the rights of the disabled, an emerging emphasis on quality of life and subjective well-being in treatment decisions, an abandonment of patriarchal models of service delivery for one that is patient and family centered, societal...