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Assigning Responsibility for Children’s Health When Parents and Authorities Disagree: Whose Child?
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBNs :
- 9783030876975 and 9783030876982
- Volume :
- 00090
- Database :
- eBook Index
- Journal :
- Assigning Responsibility for Children’s Health When Parents and Authorities Disagree: Whose Child?
- Publication Type :
- eBook
- Accession number :
- 3072678