Why Do Children Die?

JJoav Merrick, MD, MMedSci, DMSc Professor of Pediatrics at the Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Mt Scopus Campus, Jerusalem, Israel, Kentucky Childrens Hospital, University of Kentucky, Lexington, United States and Professor of Public Health at the Center for Healthy Development, School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, United States, the former Medical Director of the Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem and the Founder and Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel

Dedication: Stewart E. Greydanus (1942-1947); Preface: Why do Children Die?; Death and Dying: Perspectives of Religious Thought; Death Before Birth: Issues of Pregnancy Termination; Prevention of Newborn Death: Newborn Screening; Perspectives on Newborn Palliative Care; Unintentional Death in Childhood; Pediatric Palliative Care in Congenital Heart Disease: A Case-Based Approach in Infants and Children; Sudden Cardiac Death in the Pediatric and Adolescent Population; Pediatric Mortality During Surgical Procedures: Epidemiologic and Psychosocial Considerations; Chronic Disease and the Dying Adolescent; Pediatric Suicide: Establishing A Basis for Probing Its Mysteries and Complexities; Self-Cutting and Suicide in Adolescents; Suicidality and the LGBT Youth: Tragic Underpinnings of Societal Insouciance, Impuissant Aesculapian Response and Implacable Sacerdotal Dogma; Fatal Child Abuse; Tragedy of Sibling Abuse: Convergence of Fiction, Research, and the Reality of Human Nature; Child Sexual Abuse Perspectives; Perspectives on Incest: A Perplexing Paradox Characterized by Destructive Betrayal of Trust; The Killing Fields on the Roads: Can We Protect the Teen Driver?; Introduction to Death, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Motor Vehicle Crashes in Children and Adolescents: A Historically Delayed Realization; Death, Injury and Motor Vehicle Crashes in Children and Adolescents: What Does the Future Hold?; Concepts of Aggression: Perspectives in the 21st Century; Psychosocial Adaptation to Chronic Illness and Disability; About the Editors; About the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine (WMED), Kalamazoo, Michigan USA; About the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in Israel.