Journal article
Respecting bodily integrity and autonomy in pediatric populations
- Abstract:
- Children are treated differently to adults in liberal societies with respect to their right to bodily integrity. A commonly given justification for treating them differently is that they supposedly lack the sort of autonomy that is normally attributed to neurotypical adults. As such children fall through the cracks when it comes to protecting their bodily integrity: they are viewed as less than fully autonomous persons in philosophical, medical, and legal settings. With this editorial, we analyse current treatments of the concept of the child's right to bodily integrity and how this relates to their (developing or future) autonomy on various conceptions.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1177/14777509241295568
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- Publisher:
- SAGE Publications
- Journal:
- Clinical Ethics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 285-290
- Publication date:
- 2024-11-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-08-28
- DOI:
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1758-101X
- ISSN:
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1477-7509
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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2072381
- Local pid:
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pubs:2072381
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2025-01-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Townsend and Earp
- Copyright date:
- 2024
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- © The Author(s) 2024. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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