ISBN:
9783030876982
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource(XV, 310 p. 1 illus.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2022.
Series Statement:
The International Library of Bioethics 90
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Erscheitn auch als Jacobs, Allan J. Assigning responsibility for children’s health when parents and authorities disagree: whose child?
Keywords:
Bioethics.
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Medical policy.
;
Kind
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Gesundheitsfürsorge
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Bioethik
Abstract:
Chapter 1. Introduction, and What We Owe the Child -- Part 1: Prior approaches to state intervention -- Chapter 2. The Primrose Path: Rights and Autonomy -- Chapter 3. What Is Relevant: Interests, Needs, and Harms -- Chapter 4. What We Owe Parents and Family -- Chapter 5. What Society May Claim: Public Health -- Part 2: The State Intervention Test (SIT) and its Theoretical Basis -- Chapter 6. Political Considerations in a Liberal Pluralist State -- Chapter 7. The State Intervention Test: When to Interfere with Parental Decisions -- Part 3: Applications of the State Intervention Test -- Chapter 8. Treatment of Disease -- Chapter 9. Prevention and Screening -- Chapter 10. Enhancement of Function -- Chapter 11. The Maturing Minor -- Chapter 12. Sexual And Reproductive Issues I: Education; Reproductive Choices -- Chapter 13. Sexual And Reproductive Issues II: Departures From Binary Sexual and Gender Viewpoints -- Chapter 14. Genital Rituals: Circumcision -- Chapter 15. Genital Rituals: Female Genital Alteration -- Chapter 16. Conclusion. .
Abstract:
This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the potential conflict between a government’s duty to protect children and a parent(s)’ right to raise children in a manner they see fit. Using philosophical, bioethical, and legal analysis, the author engages with key scholars in pediatric decision-making and individual and religious rights theory. Going beyond the parent-child dyad, the author is deeply concerned both with the inteests of the broader society and with the appropriate limits of government interference in the private sphere. The text offers a balance of individual and population interests, maximizing liberty but safeguarding against harm. Bioethics and law professors will therefore be able to use this text for both a foundational overview as well as specific, subject-level analysis. Clinicians such as pediatricians and gynecologists, as well as policy-makers can use this text to achieve balance between these often competing claims. The book is written by a physician with practical and theoretical knowledge of the subject, and deep sympathy for the parental and family perspectives. As such, the book proposes a new way of evaluating parental and state interventions in children's’ healthcare: a refreshing approach and a useful addition to the literature.
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-87698-2
