The current climate is characterized by technological advancement, especially in the field of medicine. Aggressive therapies and the manipulation of life are now commonly applied to children, often including neonates or infants, and in any case to children who cannot express their consent. The boldest therapies often entail some risks; accordingly all these "medical problems" may indeed by viewed as "problematic medicine". Does the maxim "primum non nocere" still dominate undisputedly in this medicine? Should one consider reservations to this maxim, in order to limit it or even offer alternatives? This book discusses these issues and deals, among other subjects, with prenatal diagnosis, assistance to risk neonates, organ and bone marrow transplants, gene therapy, therapeutic trials, and testing on minors, but also considers problems in organization and in active social, didactic, and (in the broadest sense) cultural approaches. Without neglecting basic bioethical problems - from the risk/benefit balance to informed consent in pediatrics - this book should satisfy the interest of pediatricians in particular, but also of forensic specialists, scholars of medical humanities, and of whoever deals, in culture, with the child and in favour of the child.
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