Death or Disability? The 'Carmentis Machine' and decision-making for critically ill children

Dominic Wilkinson is Associate Professor of Neonatal Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Adelaide, and a senior research associate of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He has worked as a doctor in neonatal, paediatric and adult intensive care, and is currently consultant neonatologist at the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide. He has a DPhil in medical ethics from the University of Oxford, and has written a large number of academic articles relating to ethical issues in intensive care.

Prologue 1: The temple of Carmentis 30AD
Prologue 2: The Carmentis Machine: 2030 AD
Introduction: Neuroethics and intensive care
Section A
1. Destiny, disability, and death
2. Best interests and the Carmentis machine
3. Starting again
4. Competing interests
Section B
5. Sources of Uncertainty--prognostic research
6. Managing uncertainty
7. Interests and uncertainty
8. The Threshold framework
Index