Ethical and Legal Issues in Adolescent Health Care

Download or read book Ethical and Legal Issues in Adolescent Health Care written by Tomas J. Silber and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews helps you stay up-to-date in key areas of current clinical practice with adolescent-specific topics. This issue of "Adolescent Medicine State of the Art Reviews (AM: STARs)" focuses on a variety of ethical and legal issues that practitioners may encounter during the delivery of adolescent health care. A panel of authors has been assembled that not only explores these issues, but also provides the reader with sound reasoning and proposed solutions. Topics in "Ethical and Legal Issues in Adolescent Medicine" include: Conscience, Clinical Ethics, and Emergency ContraceptionAchieving a Decision-Making Triad in Adolescent Sexual Health CareMaking Sense of Adolescent Decision-Making: Challenge and RealityAdolescent Brain Development and the Mature Minor DoctrineAdolescent Refusal of LifesavingTreatment: Are We Asking the Right Questions?The Aftermath of Adolescent Suicide: Clinical, Ethical and Spiritual IssuesAdolescent Mothers of Critically Ill Newborns: Addressing the Rights of Parent and ChildEthical and Policy Issues Raised by Heterozygote Carrier Identification and Predictive Genetic Testing of AdolescentsCancer Therapy and the Preservation of Adolescent FertilityNondisclosure of HIV Status in AdolescenceTreatment of Anorexia Nervosa against the PatientOCOs Will: Ethical ConsiderationsaSexual Exploitation and Trafficking of the Young and Vulnerable: Reflections on a Legal, Ethical, and Human Rights DisgraceLaw, Ethics, and Clinical Discretion: Recurring and Emerging Issues in Adolescent Health Carea"