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Non-disclosure requests by parents : who should decide - a legal and ethical framework
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Limb, Rebecca (2019) Non-disclosure requests by parents : who should decide - a legal and ethical framework. Medical Law International, 19 (1). pp. 62-77. doi:10.1177/0968533219837692 ISSN 0968-5332.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/0968533219837692
Abstract
This article contributes to existing academic commentary on who should decide if a non-Gillick competent child ought to be informed about their diagnosis, prognosis and treatment when their parents and clinicians disagree. A distinction is drawn between dilemmas involving treatment disputes and non-disclosure requests, arguing that the latter is of a different nature and thus requires a different type of expertise. This article argues that parental expertise should be respected and given greater weight than it currently is when a parent’s non-disclosure request is clearly within a child’s best interests or if the request falls into a ‘Gray Zone’, where it is unclear whether it is in a child’s best interests to be informed.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | K Law [LC] > KD England and Wales | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Medical Law International | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0968-5332 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 March 2019 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 62-77 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/0968533219837692 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Description: | Free access |
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