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  1. Disability, discrimination and death: is it justified to ration life saving treatment for disabled newborn infants?Dominic Wilkinson & Julian Savulescu - 2014 - Monash Bioethics Review 32 (1-2):43-62.
    Disability might be relevant to decisions about life support in intensive care in several ways. It might affect the chance of treatment being successful, or a patient’s life expectancy with treatment. It may affect whether treatment is in a patient’s best interests. However, even if treatment would be of overall benefit it may be unaffordable and consequently unable to be provided. In this paper we will draw on the example of neonatal intensive care, and ask whether or when it is (...)
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  • Surrogate uncertainty: who decides?Dominic Wilkinson - 2022 - Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (5):295-296.
    In the case that triggered this round-table discussion there are three separate factors that contribute to moral uncertainty.1 First, the infant, baby T, is extremely premature with suspected brain injury and potentially poor prognosis. Second, the gestational mother is critically unwell herself and her outlook is guarded. Third, as linked commentaries make clear, the legal status of the intended parents is complex and ambiguous.2 3 Any of these factors on their own would be enough to generate ethical complexity and distress (...)
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  • Minority report: can minor parents refuse treatment for their child?Helen Lynne Turnham, Ariella Binik & Dominic Wilkinson - 2020 - Journal of Medical Ethics 46 (6):355-359.
    Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker when an infant’s biological parents are also minors? In this paper, we analyse a case in which the biological mother is a child. The central questions raised by the case are whether minor parents should make medical decisions on behalf of an infant, and if so, what are the (...)
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  • Shedding Light on the Gray Zone.Dominic James Wilkinson - 2011 - American Journal of Bioethics 11 (2):W3 - W5.
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  • Withdrawal Aversion and the Equivalence Test.Julian Savulescu, Ella Butcherine & Dominic Wilkinson - 2019 - American Journal of Bioethics 19 (3):21-28.
    If a doctor is trying to decide whether or not to provide a medical treatment, does it matter ethically whether that treatment has already been started? Health professionals sometimes find it harder to stop a treatment (withdraw) than to refrain from starting the treatment (withhold). But does that feeling correspond to an ethical difference? In this article, we defend equivalence—the view that withholding and withdrawal of treatment are ethically equivalent when all other factors are equal. We argue that preference for (...)
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  • Which newborn infants are too expensive to treat? Camosy and rationing in intensive care.Dominic Wilkinson - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (8):502-506.
    Are there some newborn infants whose short- and long-term care costs are so great that treatment should not be provided and they should be allowed to die? Public discourse and academic debate about the ethics of newborn intensive care has often shied away from this question. There has been enough ink spilt over whether or when for the infant's sake it might be better not to provide life-saving treatment. The further question of not saving infants because of inadequate resources has (...)
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  • Parental reasoning about growth attenuation therapy: report of a single-case study.Nicola Kerruish & John R. McMillan - 2015 - Journal of Medical Ethics 41 (9):745-749.
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