Assigning Responsibility for Children's Health When Parents and Authorities Disagree: Whose Child? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the potential conflict between a government's duty to protect children and a parent(s)' right to raise children in a manner they see fit. Using philosophical, bioethical, and legal analysis, the author engages with key scholars in pediatric decision-making and individual and religious rights theory. Going beyond the parent-child dyad, the author is deeply concerned both with the inteests of the broader society and with the appropriate limits of government interference in the private sphere. The text offers a balance of individual and population interests, maximizing liberty but safeguarding against harm. Bioethics and law professors will therefore be able to use this text for both a foundational overview as well as specific, subject-level analysis. Clinicians such as pediatricians and gynecologists, as well as policy-makers can use this text to achieve balance between these often competing claims. The book is written by a physician with practical and theoretical knowledge of the subject, and deep sympathy for the parental and family perspectives. As such, the book proposes a new way of evaluating parental and state interventions in children's' healthcare: a refreshing approach and a useful addition to the literature.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	The International Library of Bioethics, 90
Release date:	October 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	Allan J. Jacobs
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	310
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-087697-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Bio-ethics
LSN:	3-03-087697-7
Barcode:	9783030876975

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