AM:STARs Ethical and Legal Issues in Adolescent Health Care : Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews, Vol. 22 Number 2 PDF

Edited by Tomas J. Silber, Abigail English

Part of the Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art series

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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 Contraception
Achieving a Decision-Making Triad in Adolescent Sexual Health Care
Making Sense of Adolescent Decision-Making: Challenge and Reality
Adolescent Brain Development and the Mature Minor Doctrine
Adolescent Refusal of LifesavingTreatment: Are We Asking the Right Questions?
The Aftermath of Adolescent Suicide: Clinical, Ethical and Spiritual Issues
Adolescent Mothers of Critically Ill Newborns: Addressing the Rights of Parent and Child
Ethical and Policy Issues Raised by Heterozygote Carrier Identification and Predictive Genetic Testing of Adolescents
Cancer Therapy and the Preservation of Adolescent Fertility
Nondisclosure of HIV Status in Adolescence
Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa against the Patient's Will: Ethical Considerations
Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of the Young and Vulnerable: Reflections on a Legal, Ethical, and Human Rights Disgrace
Law, Ethics, and Clinical Discretion:Recurring and Emerging Issues in Adolescent Health Care