Journal of Pediatric Ethics issues

Fall 2025, Vol 5 Issue 1

Epistemic Justice and Disparities in Care

Ian D. Wolfe

Epistemic Justice and the Structural Silencing of Linguistically Diverse Parents

Jennifer Needle-Suarez

Adolescent Objection to Surgery: A Careful Evaluation of Current and Future Interests

Shika Kalevor and Ian D. Wolfe

Miscommunicated Care with Ranch on the Side

J. Patrick Haltom

Spring 2025, Vol 4 Issue 2

Navigating Liminal Spaces and Paradoxes

Ian D. Wolfe

Equal Work Demands Equal Pay, Even in Pediatric Research

Christopher Bobier, Bayley Levy, and Priya Dutta

Transgender Minors and the Right to Care

Carolyn Baker Ringel

Parental Paradox: Ethical Considerations in Supporting Parents of Transgender Youth When Politics or Faith Create a Divide

Frances Lim-Liberty, L.L.C., Holly Schroeder, and Catherine D. Shubkin

Paternal Sea Change: A Trans Dad's Journey to Fatherhood through Resilience and Advocacy for Modern Social and Ethical Standards in Fertility Care

Abe Dickison

Fall 2024, Vol 4 Issue 1

Ethics Consultation in Children's Hospitals

Ian D. Wolfe

Pediatric Ethics Consultations: Identifying Disparities to Inform Future Practice

Brian D. Leland, Connor N. Hannon, and Lucia D. Wocial

How Do I Get an Ethics Consult: Comparing Barriers to Ethics Consultation in Pediatric Inpatient and Outpatient Settings

Julia Krantz, Melissa Atwood, and Annie B. Friedrich

A Narrative Approach to Assent in Pediatrics

Tyler Clay

Spring 2024, Vol 3 Issue 2

Navigating Facts and Values

Ian D. Wolfe

Parents’ perspectives on values and values conflicts impacting shared decision making for critically ill neonates

Krenz C, Spector-Bagdady K, De Vries R, Kukora S.

A narrative experience with adolescent genetic testing

Wu KP, Ruth A, Mahoney DP

Difficult to swallow: Epidermolysis bullosa, esophageal stricture, and the boundaries of forgoing medical nutrition and hydration

Sveen W, Sederstrom N

A day in the life of a pediatric intensive care unit nurse

Newton JL

Fall 2023, Vol 3 Issue 1

Joining together

Ian D. Wolfe

Disagreement and ethical decision making in pediatric emergency care

Shapiro JP, Garrett JR

Using a shared decision-making model: navigating parents’ and patients’ refusal of blood products

Sawyer KE, McNeil MJ, Metzger ML, Boggs J, Takemoto CM, Talleur AC, Johnson L

The clinical bioethics associate: an innovative model of care nested in a pediatric bioethics department

Kirsch RE, Chad L, Helmers A, Lord S, Weingarten K, Hellmann J, McCradden M, Zlotnik Shaul R

Sonny Disgust and Anna Fear: An ethic of obligation

Hood-Patterson, RD

Time: A mother’s plea

Klar, AL

The other side of the bed

Anonymous

Spring 2023, Vol 2 Issue 2

Meeting challenges in the best way towards the best end

Ian D. Wolfe

How should clinicians respond when a parent’s medical decision making for their child is influenced by the parent’s psychotic illness

Barnett S, Zaim N, Thompson BS

A harm-reduction approach for a child with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder

Wu JT

Is it ethical to sedate this patient in the pediatric intensive care unit for behavioral problems?

Wolf ID, Sveen B

Making Deacon visible

Voerste J

My daughter could light up a room

Field A

Summer 2022, Vol 2 Issue 1

Everyday ethics and partnering with families in children’s hospitals

Ian D. Wolfe

Do the rules always apply? An analysis of exceptions to a COVID19-era pediatric visitation policy

Ashley Shim A, Searles MP, Wong R, Caruso Brown AE

Paternal rights: the ethics of misunderstanding the “legal right to a child”

Wolfe ID, Turk D

Transparency conversations that build strong partnerships

Bekric A

Help me understand — contemplating a novel therapy versus waiting and hoping

Wakefield B

Spring 2021, Vol 1 Issue 4

Intersex children and medical epistemology: moving from interests to rights

Ian D. Wolfe

The microethics of informed consent for early feminizing surgery in congenital adrenal hyperplasia

Dalke KB, Baratz AB

The irrelevance of data to the ethics of intersex surgery

Samuel Reis-Dennis S, Reis E

Our beautiful child

Anonymous parents

Parenting intersex children: sensitive medical care and peer support that make the difference

Anonymous parent

Genital ambiguity at birth: ethical issues in the management of children with differences of sexual development, also known as intersex

Fazal A

Supporting families: lessons learned from parents’ narrative experiences

Davis A

Spring 2020, Vol 1 Issue 3

Advance care planning and end of life

Sholas MG

Children’s views on death and dying: an overview and ethical focus on advance care planning communication with children

Ashley Lanzel A, Brock KE

Parental “holding and letting go” in end-of-life decision making in the neonatal intensive care unit

Freitag LC

Mature minors, mature decisions: advance care planning for adolescent patients with life-limiting illness

Needle J, Lyon M, Brunquell D, Heith C

Re-examining the ethics of clinical trial approval in a gene-targeted era through a case-based approach: exploring the implications of the n = 1 Batten disease trial

Rabinowitz DG

The most difficult decision we ever had to make

Olavson K

Precious life; precious loss

Beaudry E

Winter 2019, Vol 1 Issue 2

Introduction to the issue

Sholas MG

Your child does not have chronic Lyme disease: a commentary on communication, beneficence, and consent

King E

Pediatric oncology careproviders’ attitudes on and perceptions of assent

Lucjak C, Lee KJ, Lang KR

Difficult conversations in the ambulatory pediatric setting

Berkowitz S

Caring for patients and families in challenging circumstances: preparing for and engaging in difficult conversations

Huntley TM

A Critical analysis of futility discourse in pediatric critical care

Wolfe I

Dads are parents, too

Schram P

A successful failure

Wakefield B

Without regret

Wagner J

Fall 2017, Vol 1 Issue 1

From the editors

Sederstrom N, Sprehe M

Gatekeeping and bias against pediatric risk in solid organ transplant

Wightman AG, Horslen SP

Cultural bias in American medicine: the case of infant male circumcision

Earp BD, Shaw DM

Partial survivors: the brokenness of intact survival

Mann PC

If truth be told: paternal nondisclosure and neonatal herpes simplex virus infections

Sveen W, Sury M, Needle J

“An opportunity to fail”: an examination of bias in pediatric residents’ case presentations

Ransom H, Perkin RM

The ethical implications of bias in counseling parents of children with Trisomy 13 and 18

Benson RJ, Shinkunas LA, Salls J

Caregivers’ bias and communication at patient “hand-off”: the benefits of the Bring it Bedside Program

Linda Lefrak L, Lamsal R

Mother love

Morley, P

Desperation. Exhaustion. Fear

Martindale J

Perfect “children’s parents”

Holzbauer S

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