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Legal and cultural differences in medical decision-making on behalf of very young children

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This collection brings together analyses of disputes between parents and doctors over the treatment of seriously ill young children from more than twenty-five jurisdictions across six continents. While it is impossible to do justice to all of the themes or patterns that emerge from the contributors in this book, in this chapter, we hope to draw out some of the key themes, and to contextualise these within the social and cultural background of the countries discussed. We begin by exploring the...

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Accepted
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Peer reviewed

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Law Faculty
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ORCID:
0000-0001-7622-0999
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Hart Publisher's website
Host title:
Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children: A Comparative Perspective
Place of publication:
Oxford
ISBN:
9781509928576
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Pubs id:
1087539
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pubs:1087539
Deposit date:
2020-08-05

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