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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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2020
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