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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300054803321

Autore

Then Shih-Ning

Titolo

Children as Tissue Donors : Regulatory Protection, Medical Ethics, and Practice / / by Shih-Ning Then

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

981-13-3047-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 245 p.)

Disciplina

344.0321

Soggetti

Medical laws and legislation

Bioethics

Surgical transplantation

Regenerative medicine

Tissue engineering

Medical Law

Transplant Surgery

Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Ethics of Children Donating Tissue to Another -- Chapter 3: Ethical Frameworks and Their Influence on Practice -- Chapter 4: Regulation of Child Tissue Donors in the United Kingdom -- Chapter 5: Regulation of Child Tissue Donors in Australia -- Chapter 6: Regulation of Child Tissue Donors in the United States -- Chapter 7: Medical Professionals’ Views on Legal and Non-Legal Forms of Regulation -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the position of children who provide tissue to potentially save the life of another. It questions whether child donors of all ages have been treated appropriately and whether they are sufficiently protected in acting as tissue donors, and ultimately considers whether a new regulatory response is needed to benefit donor children. The book couples a legal exposition of the donor child’s position with the medico-ethical reality of clinical practice. In recent years, a growing body of literature concerning the clinical experiences and outcomes for child donors has emerged. This book adds to this by



examining another dimension – the regulatory frameworks at play. It examines the ethical arguments for and against children acting as tissue donors and provides an original analysis of the legal and non-legal regulatory frameworks governing children’s participation in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. It combines these doctrinal and theoretical approaches with insights into clinical practice gained from the results of qualitative research conducted with health professionals. The analysis inevitably explores the more general issues of children’s right to make medical decisions, the role of parents in decision-making, the value of the best interests test and alternative (legal and ethical) standards, rights of participation of children before the courts, and the role of law and other forms of regulation in a clinical context. .