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<DIV><DIV>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.<BR><BR>This issue of <i>Adolescent Medicine State of the Art Reviews (AM:STARs)</i> 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. <BR><BR>Topics in <b><i>Ethical and Legal Issues in Adolescent Medicine</i></b> include:</div><ul> <li>Conscience, Clinical Ethics, and Emergency Contraception</li> <li>Achieving a Decision-Making Triad in Adolescent Sexual Health Care</li> <li>Making Sense of Adolescent Decision-Making: Challenge and Reality</li> <li>Adolescent Brain Development and the Mature Minor Doctrine</li> <li>Adolescent Refusal of LifesavingTreatment: Are We Asking the Right Questions?</li> <li>The Aftermath of Adolescent Suicide: Clinical, Ethical and Spiritual Issues</li> <li>Adolescent Mothers of Critically Ill Newborns: Addressing the Rights of Parent and Child</li> <li>Ethical and Policy Issues Raised by Heterozygote Carrier Identification and Predictive Genetic Testing of Adolescents</li> <li>Cancer Therapy and the Preservation of Adolescent Fertility</li> <li>Nondisclosure of HIV Status in Adolescence</li> <li>Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa against the Patient’s Will: Ethical Considerations</li> <li> Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of the Young and Vulnerable: Reflections on a Legal, Ethical, and Human Rights Disgrace</li> <li>Law, Ethics, and Clinical Discretion:Recurring and Emerging Issues in Adolescent Health Care</li></ul> </div>
