Children's Health and Children's Rights
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
978-90-04-14894-9 (ISBN)
This volume examines critically some of the most pertinent and controversial issues relating to children and health care. Insights are offered into some of today’s leading controversies about children and their rights. The focus is on such issues as anorexia, circumcision, autism and gender reassignment. A number of the essays in this collection were previously published in the International Journal of Children's Rights.
Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College, London. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Children's Rights; Editor of the International Journal of Law in Context; Editor of Issues in Law and Society, General Editor of International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law and joint-editor of the Current Legal Problems. He has published widely in the areas of family law, child law and policy, children's rights, medicine, ethics and the law and medical law, jurisprudence and legal theory.
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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.3.2006 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 746 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-14894-9 / 9004148949 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-14894-9 / 9789004148949 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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