Research Catalog

Title

Primum non nocere today : a symposium on pediatric bioethics : proceedings of the International Symposium on Pediatric Bioethics, Pavia, 26-28 May 1994 / editors, G. Roberto Burgio, John D. Lantos.

Author

International Symposium on Pediatric Bioethics (1994 : Pavia, Italy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94803278

Publication

Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Burgio, G. R.
• Lantos, John D.

Description

x, 175 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

International congress series ; no. 1071

Uniform Title

International congress series ; no. 1071.

Subjects

• Pediatrics
• Pediatrics > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses
• Bioethics
• Congress

Genre/Form

Congress.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. Gilton -- 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. Burgia, L. Nespoli and F. Locatelli -- 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, S. Giliani, F. Condotti and A. G. Ugazio -- 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, F. Mastrilli, M. C. Mazzeo and I. Masterbuono -- Bioethics and the relationship between biomedicine and society: lessons from pediatrics bioethics / G. Corbellini.

ISBN

0444819207(alk. paper)

LCCN

94040670

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