Jo Bridgeman

Medical Treatment of Children and the Law

Beyond Parental Responsibilities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book answers the questions why the state intrudes into the exercise of parental responsibility concerning the medical treatment of children and why parents may not be permitted to decide what is in the best interests of their child and argues for a different understanding of the law concerning the medical treatment of children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780367200022
• ISBN-10: 0367200023
• Artikelnr.: 60006935

Autorenporträt

Jo Bridgeman is Professor of Healthcare Law and Feminist Ethics at the University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1 The Changing Context for Children's Medical Treatment Cases
2 The Children Act 1989 and Responsibilities for Children's Medical
Treatment Cases
3 The Development of the Legal Framework for Children's Medical Treatment
Cases
4 The Legal Duties of Doctors to Children in Their Care
5 Protecting the Interests and Welfare of Vulnerable Children
6 Professional Duties and Public Responsibilities in Limitation of
Life-Sustaining Treatment Cases
7 At the Frontiers of Medicine
8 Professional Duties, Public Responsibilities, and State Intervention into
Family Life

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1 The Changing Context for Children's Medical Treatment Cases

2 The Children Act 1989 and Responsibilities for Children's Medical Treatment Cases

3 The Development of the Legal Framework for Children's Medical Treatment Cases

4 The Legal Duties of Doctors to Children in Their Care

5 Protecting the Interests and Welfare of Vulnerable Children

6 Professional Duties and Public Responsibilities in Limitation of Life-Sustaining Treatment Cases

7 At the Frontiers of Medicine

8 Professional Duties, Public Responsibilities, and State Intervention into Family Life