Lynn Hagger

The Child As Vulnerable Patient

Protection and Empowerment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the particular ethical and legal issues raised by children in the health care setting and considers the key areas of concern in relation to the balance between protecting the welfare of the young and their rights to autonomy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781138376465
• ISBN-10: 1138376469
• Artikelnr.: 57053866

Autorenporträt

Lynn Hagger is a lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests lie in health care generally and children's rights in particular. In addition to her legal career, Lynn also has a long-term non-executive involvement in the NHS where she has provided law and ethics training for a broad range of health professionals. For the last five years she has been Chairperson of the Sheffield Children's NHS Trust.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
The importance of protecting and empowering children
The law and children's autonomy
Parental responsibility and children's medical treatment
Confidentiality and children
Genetic testing and counselling: the paradigm case for family medicine?
Negligence and complaints
Children in research
Children's participation and foundation trust: some new opportunities?
Concluding remarks
Index.