Doctors' Orders / Brian Doherty.
by Doherty, Brian; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2002Article 3Family. Publisher: Reason, 2001ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Child health services | Child welfare | Parent and child (Law) | Physician and patient | Right to refuse treatmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The conflict between a parent's wishes and the state's notions of how to protect children's health has traditionally been fought on religious grounds....But in a largely secular contemporary America, such conflicts increasingly go beyond religion. Parents caught up in heated scientific and ethical debates are finding themselves threatened with loss of their children, or what amounts to nearly the same thing....Fortunately, in a world of increasing access to information--and one in which authorities of all sorts hold less clout than they used to--many parents are fighting back." (REASON) This article cites specific instances in which parents believed their liberties were violated in the name of medical treatment.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002.
Originally Published: Doctors' Orders, Feb. 2001; pp. 32-38.
"The conflict between a parent's wishes and the state's notions of how to protect children's health has traditionally been fought on religious grounds....But in a largely secular contemporary America, such conflicts increasingly go beyond religion. Parents caught up in heated scientific and ethical debates are finding themselves threatened with loss of their children, or what amounts to nearly the same thing....Fortunately, in a world of increasing access to information--and one in which authorities of all sorts hold less clout than they used to--many parents are fighting back." (REASON) This article cites specific instances in which parents believed their liberties were violated in the name of medical treatment.
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