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Family interests and medical decisions for children
Medical decisions for children are usually justified by the claim that they are in a child's best interests. More recently, following criticisms of the best interests standard, some advocate that the family's interests should influence medical decisions for children, although what is meant...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28901601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12376 |
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description | Medical decisions for children are usually justified by the claim that they are in a child's best interests. More recently, following criticisms of the best interests standard, some advocate that the family's interests should influence medical decisions for children, although what is meant by family interests is often not made clear. I argue that at least two senses of family interests may be discerned. There is a ‘weak’ sense (as the amalgamated interests of family members) of family interests and a ‘strong’ sense (that the family itself has interests over and above the interests of individuals). I contend that there are problems with both approaches in making medical decisions for children but that the weak sense is more plausible. Despite this, I argue that claims for family interests are not helpful in making medical decisions for children. |
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spelling | pubmed-56555542017-11-01 Family interests and medical decisions for children Baines, Paul Bioethics Special Issue Papers Medical decisions for children are usually justified by the claim that they are in a child's best interests. More recently, following criticisms of the best interests standard, some advocate that the family's interests should influence medical decisions for children, although what is meant by family interests is often not made clear. I argue that at least two senses of family interests may be discerned. There is a ‘weak’ sense (as the amalgamated interests of family members) of family interests and a ‘strong’ sense (that the family itself has interests over and above the interests of individuals). I contend that there are problems with both approaches in making medical decisions for children but that the weak sense is more plausible. Despite this, I argue that claims for family interests are not helpful in making medical decisions for children. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-09-13 2017-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5655554/ /pubmed/28901601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12376 Text en © 2017 The Author. Bioethics Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Special Issue Papers Baines, Paul Family interests and medical decisions for children |
title | Family interests and medical decisions for children |
title_full | Family interests and medical decisions for children |
title_fullStr | Family interests and medical decisions for children |
title_full_unstemmed | Family interests and medical decisions for children |
title_short | Family interests and medical decisions for children |
title_sort | family interests and medical decisions for children |
topic | Special Issue Papers |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5655554/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28901601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12376 |
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