Includes bibliographical references and index.

Unconventional medicine in the pediatric intensive care unit / Chester J. Randle Jr. -- Role responsibility in pediatrics : appeasing or transforming parental demands? / Richard B. Miller -- The extremely premature infant at the crossroads / Ronald Cohen and Eugene Kim -- The extremely premature infant at the crossroads : ethical and legal considerations / Simon N. Whitney -- Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Manuel Garcia-Careaga and John A. Kerner Jr. -- Some conceptual and ethical issues in Munchausen syndrome by proxy / Frances M. Kamm -- Letting go : a study in pediatric life-and-death decision making / Lawrence H. Mathers -- Near-drowning, futility, and the limits of shared decision making / Simon N. Whitney -- Long-term ventilation in a child with severe central nervous system impairment / Ronald M. Perkin, Robert Orr, and Stephen Ashwal -- Autonomy, community, and futility : moral paradigms for the long-term ventilation of a severely impaired child / Anita Silvers -- Complexities in the management of a brain-dead child / Lorry R. Frankel and Chester J. Randle Jr. -- The moral arena in the management of a brain-dead child / Amnon Goldworth -- Where should a child die? / Roger Burne -- Where should a child (in the USA) die? / William A. Silverman -- Infant heart transplantation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome : what are the ethical issues? / Clifford Chin -- Infant heart transplantation and hypoplastic left heart syndrome : a response / Joel E. Frader -- Liver and intestinal transplantation / Manuel Garcia-Careaga, Ricardo Orlando Castillo, and John A Kerner Jr. -- Transplantation and adolescents / Rosamond Rhodes -- Ethical problems encountered with oncology and bone marrow transplant patients / Lorry R. Frankel and Joseph V. DiCarlo -- Ethics in the pediatric intensive care unit : oncology and bone marrow transplant patients / Linda Granowetter -- Nursing perspectives on withholding food and fluids in pediatrics / Joy Penticuff -- Ethics and clinical decision making : withholding food and information / Mary V. Rorty -- Ethics and managed care / Douglas S. Diekema -- Challenging fidelity : the physician's role in rationing / Nancy S. Jecker.