Children, Families, and Health Care Decision Making (Issues in Biomedical Ethics)

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Review "Will surely spark lively debate around our cultural assumptions about individual autonomy, the role of families in society, and our responsibilities to children. ... Ross's book is a welcome contribution to emerging debates about health-care issues involving children"--National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly" . . . strongly recommend[ed] to anyone who wants to gain valuable insight into the ethical issues involving the child as a research subject, as an organ donor, as a patient, and as a sexually active adolescent."-Laurence D. Houlgate, Ethics Read more About the Author Lainie Friedman Ross, MD, Ph.D, is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Medicine, and Assistant Director of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, at the University of Chicago. After taking her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and doing her residency in children's and babies' hospitals in Philadelphia and New York City, she took a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Yale. She has been on the faculty at the University of Chicago since 1994. Read more