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Minority report: can minor parents refuse treatment for their child?

Infants are unable to make their own decisions or express their own wishes about medical procedures and treatments. They rely on surrogates to make decisions for them. Who should be the decision-maker when an infant’s biological parents are also minors? In this paper, we analyse a case in which the...

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Autores principales: Turnham, Helen Lynne, Binik, Ariella, Wilkinson, Dominic
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7279200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32060211
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2019-105702