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Commentary on North Western Health Board v HW and CW (the PKU case)
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Harding, Maebh and Coffey, Donal (2016) Commentary on North Western Health Board v HW and CW (the PKU case). In: Enright, Máiréad and McCandless, Julie and O'Donoghue, Aoife, (eds.) Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges’ Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781849465748
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Official URL: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/937783012
Abstract
Should the state administer a medical screening test on a child against the wishes of the family? The parents in this case refused to allow a test which would have involved taking a pinprick of blood from the child in order to test for certain metabolic disorders – phenylketonuria, homocystinuria, and hypothyroidism. The parents objected on religious grounds, that ‘nobody is allowed to injure anyone else’. Based on this conviction, they objected to pricking the skin of their child. The Irish Supreme Court upheld the wishes of the family and refused to order the administration of the test.
This feminist revisiting of the case argues that the Irish Supreme Court prioritised the paradigm marital family as a unit over the rights of individual children in setting the test for intervention into the family unit on behalf of the child.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare K Law [LC] > KD England and Wales > KDK Ireland |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Children's rights, Custody of children, Child welfare | ||||||
Publisher: | Hart Publishing | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781849465748 | ||||||
Book Title: | Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments: Judges’ Troubles and the Gendered Politics of Identity | ||||||
Editor: | Enright, Máiréad and McCandless, Julie and O'Donoghue, Aoife | ||||||
Official Date: | 2016 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 592 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Description: | Chapter 19 |
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Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 April 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 April 2016 | ||||||
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