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    guest editors, Tomas J. Silber, Abigail English.
    Summary: Published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews helps you stay up-to-date in key areas of current clinical practice with adolescent-specific topics. This issue of Adolescent Medicine State of the Art Reviews (AM:STARs) focuses on a variety of ethical and legal issues that practitioners may encounter during the delivery of adolescent health care. A panel of authors has been assembled that not only explores these issues, but also provides the reader with sound reasoning and proposed solutions. Topics in Et.

    Contents:
    Conscience, clinical ethics, and emergency contraception
    Achieving a decision-making triad in adolescent sexual health care
    Making sense of adolescent decision-making: challenge and reality
    Adolescent brain development and the mature minor doctrine
    Adolescent refusal of lifesaving treatment: are we asking the right questions?
    The aftermath of adolescent suicide: clinical, ethical, and spiritual issues
    Adolescent mothers of critically ill newborns: addressing the rights of parent and child
    Ethical and policy issues raised by heterozygote carrier identification and predictive genetic testing of adolescents
    Cancer therapy and the preservation of adolescent fertility
    Nondisclosure of HIV status in adolescence
    Treatment of anorexia nervosa against the patient's will: ethical considerations
    Iatrogenesis: ethical and legal aspects
    Health rights, health ethics, and adolescence: addressing current challenges, ensuring a just future
    Sexual exploitation and trafficking of the young and vulnerable: reflections on a legal, ethical, and human rights disgrace
    Law, ethics, and clinical discretion: recurring and emerging issues in adolescent health care.
    Digital Access eBook Comp Acad 2011