Add to ORKGThis article traces how the rise of respect for children’s consent during the 1980s has fallen during the 1990s, and questions whether lawyers and doctors can be relied on to make fair decisions for each child they consider. Using examples mainly drawn from heart surgery, the article concludes that medical and legal decisions would be better informed if more account was taken of children’s and parents’ views
The Constitutional Court judgments of Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children and Another v Minister o...
Parents have traditionally had the right to consent to health services for their children. In situat...
In R (Axon) v Secretary of State for Health the Gillick competence test was confirmed. Commitment to...
Parental refusal to consent for medical and surgical consent can present children's nurses with a pr...
In this first article of two, the author considers some of the legal issues surrounding the matter o...
This paper briefly reviews highlights from decades of debates in medicine, law, bioethics, psycholog...
BACKGROUND: The law and literature about children’s consent generally assume that patients aged unde...
A dilemma exists when a doctor is faced with a child or young person who refuses medically indicated...
Background: The law and literature about children’s consent generally assume that patients aged unde...
Mainstream law and ethics literature on consent to children’s surgery contrasts with moral experienc...
The thesis includes: reviews of ethics, law, philosophy, psychology and social science literature; t...
Bioethics guidelines vary in their response to children as research subjects. Children have been ig...
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Commonly it is believed that children need to be 16 years old before they have the right to give, or...
This article explores the relationship between competence and authority in relation to medical treat...
The Constitutional Court judgments of Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children and Another v Minister o...
Parents have traditionally had the right to consent to health services for their children. In situat...
In R (Axon) v Secretary of State for Health the Gillick competence test was confirmed. Commitment to...
Parental refusal to consent for medical and surgical consent can present children's nurses with a pr...
In this first article of two, the author considers some of the legal issues surrounding the matter o...
This paper briefly reviews highlights from decades of debates in medicine, law, bioethics, psycholog...
BACKGROUND: The law and literature about children’s consent generally assume that patients aged unde...
A dilemma exists when a doctor is faced with a child or young person who refuses medically indicated...
Background: The law and literature about children’s consent generally assume that patients aged unde...
Mainstream law and ethics literature on consent to children’s surgery contrasts with moral experienc...
The thesis includes: reviews of ethics, law, philosophy, psychology and social science literature; t...
Bioethics guidelines vary in their response to children as research subjects. Children have been ig...
AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstractAbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract (Word Count: 298)(Word Count: 298)(...
Commonly it is believed that children need to be 16 years old before they have the right to give, or...
This article explores the relationship between competence and authority in relation to medical treat...
The Constitutional Court judgments of Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children and Another v Minister o...
Parents have traditionally had the right to consent to health services for their children. In situat...
In R (Axon) v Secretary of State for Health the Gillick competence test was confirmed. Commitment to...