title: The ethical challenge of sick children.
abstract: Our impulse in medicine is to furnish help and comfort to the human beings who come to us, and to do so by using whatever technology is appropriate. This intuitive feeling is challenged by certain medical ethicists. Their principles, however, must be combined.
authors.affiliation: Medical Ethics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gillett
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D012297:Right to Die