Great Ormond Street Hospital Textbook of Paediatric Bioethics and Law

Oxford University Press has just published Great Ormond Street Hospital Textbook of Paediatric Bioethics and Law. 

Thus is the first definitive reference to be produced by a world-leading children's hospital on the medical ethics and law applying to the care of children in a 21st century healthcare environment, exploring the challenges that children, their families, and those looking after them must face.

Healthcare professionals involved in the care of children are faced with controversies about decision-making, including genomics, personalized medicine, gene therapy, transplants, and the transfer of life-sustaining treatments from the ICU to the home. In addition, although patient safety and transparency are improving, recurrent high-profile worldwide institutional and individual failures have led to the need for mechanisms of external accountability and assessment. Open deliberation about the ethical issues increasingly faced in pediatrics and child health, backed by knowledge of the relevant law and considered together with children and their families, is the best solution for all these concerns.

This textbook enables better dialogue about the hard decisions made on a daily basis, considers how new and innovative treatments can be used in an ethical and lawful manner, and discusses when life sustaining therapy should be stopped, not started, or have limits set.

Here is the TOC

1. Respect or Protect Children and Young People? Healthcare Law in England and Wales, Richard Huxtable
2. Paediatric Bioethics: Philosophical Foundations, Dave Archard
3. Decisions to limit treatment in children, Vic Larcher and Joe Brierley
4. Religion and Medical Ethics, Rev James Linthicum
5. Innovative therapy in child health, Joe Brierley
6. Consent and Capacity, Flora Jago
7. Psychological distress in staff in relation to difficult treatment decisions, Gillian Colville
8. Moral Distress; what is it & why do we need to take it seriously?, Anne MacNiven
9. Parents’ participation, Stephanie Nimmo
10. Ethical Issues in Paediatric Donation & Transplant, David Shaw and Joe Brierley
11. Key Ethical Issues in Paediatric Anaesthesia, Hugo Wellesley
12. Key Ethical issues in Paediatric Surgery, Simon Blackburn Robert Wheeler
13. Key Ethical issues in Paediatric Radiology, Marina Easty and Riwa Meshaka
14. Key Ethical Issues in Paediatric Nephrology, Stephen Marks
15. Key Ethical Issues in Paediatric Oncology, Darren Hargrave and Dr Elwira Szychot
16. Key Ethical Issues in Paediatric Respiratory LTV, NIV, Samiran Ray and Elaine Chan with Colin Wallis (reviewer)
17. Ethical issues in the management of children with disorders of consciousness (DOC), Sarah Aylett
18. The Psychosocial contribution to Bioethics in contemporary paediatrics, Phil Marsden & Kirsty Abbas
19. The Ethical Issues of Genetic Testing in Children, Helen O'Neill
20. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Child Maltreatment, Alison Steele
21. Teaching Ethics to the Children’s Hospital’: Principles and Theories of an Ethics Education, Sara Warriach and Simon Blackburn
22. The Ethics of Surgery in 2025, Paolo De Coppi and Simon Blackburn
23. The Ethics of Research with Children, Bobbie Farsides and Katherine Wright
24. Law and Ethics in Paediatric Mental Health, Camilla Parker, Simon Wilkinson and Susan Walker
25. Televising Paediatric Healthcare, Eleanor Updale
26. Ethics in the Neonatal Period, Simon Hannam and Zoe Smith
27. Extracorporeal treatment/Bridging to transplant, Samantha Potter and Timothy Thiruchelvam
28. Ethics & law in Paediatric Palliative care, Finella Craig, Sophie Bertaud, and Richard Hain
29. Teenage decision making and the law in England and Wales, Emma Cave
30. Controversies in Immunisation, Helen Bedford and David Elliman
31. Conflicts in child health, Victoria Butler-Cole
32. Gender dysphoria and puberty suppression, Vic Larcher and Joe Brierley
33. Advocacy for children, Ingrid Wolfe, Raeena Hirve, Rose-Marie Satherley, Sapfo Lignou
34. Ethical considerations when caring for migrant children, Sarah Boutros, Bryony Hopkinshaw, and Jonathan Broad and Sunanda Bhatia
35. GPs and the familial duty of care, Mary Lowth
36. Ethics of the next pandemic, Sam Ray and Joe Brierley
37. Judging child health law, Fiona Paterson
38. Second Medical Opinions; use of the Internet and Social Media, Vic Larcher and Joe Brierley
39. Conclusion, Joe Brierley and Hebe Weir