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Children's Health and Children's Rights

Edited by: Michael Freeman

ISBN13: 9789004148949
ISBN: 9004148949
Published: February 2006
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Country of Publication: The Netherlands
Format: Hardback
Price: £129.00



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This collection offers a series of essays highlighting many of the most controversial of contemporary issues relating to children, medicine and health care including the participation rights of children, genetic testing, male circumcision, organ donation, gender reassignment, the rights of autistic children, anorexia nervosa. Essays are written by a range of leading scholars across a range of disciplines. A number of the essays in this collection were previously published in the International Journal of Children's Rights.

Subjects:
Human Rights and Civil Liberties, Medical Law and Bioethics
Contents:
Preface;
Children’s Health and Children’s Rights: An Introduction Michael Freeman;
Listening and Responding? Children’s Participation in Health Care within England Anita Franklin and Patricia Sloper;
The Participation Rights of Premature Babies Priscilla Anderson, Joanna Hawthorne and Margaret Killen;
Children and Research: A Risk of Double Jeopardy? Lynn Hagger and Simon Woods;
Of Newborns and Nubiles: Some Critical Challenges to Children’s Rights in Africa in the Era of HIV/Aids Julia Sloth-Nielsen;
Rights of the Autistic Child Rosalind Ekman Ladd;
Caring for Children with Severe Disabilities: Boundaried and Relational Rights Jo Bridgeman;
Adolescent Gender Identity and the Courts Melinda Jones;
Anorexia Nervosa and its Moral Foundations Simona Giordano;
Short Changed? The Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision Marie Fox and Michael Thomson;
Communication for Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting Neil Ford;
Rethinking Gillick Michael Freeman;
Frail Connections: Legal and Psychiatric Knowledge Practices in U.S. Adjudication over Organ Donations by Children and Incompetent
Adults Marie-Andrée Jacob;
Minors and Euthanasia Debbie Mannaerts and Freddy Mortier;
Our Inheritance, Our Future: Their Rights? Sheila A.M. McLean and J. Kenyon Mason;
Predictive Genetic Testing in Children and Respect for Autonomy Phillipa Malpas;
Defining Parenthood Bonnie Steinbock;
Index.