When is a Choice not a Choice? ‘Sham Offers’ and the Asymmetry of Adolescent Consent and Refusal

In some jurisdictions there is a puzzling asymmetry between consent and refusal, where, for some kinds of treatment, the adolescent patient has the power to permit her own treatment but her refusal does not have the same kind of normative significance as refusal of treatment by a competent adult. In...

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Main Author: Manson, Neil C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2017]
In: Bioethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 296-304
IxTheo Classification:NCH Medical ethics
Further subjects:B Paternalism
B Consent
B asymmetry of consent and refusal
B refusal of treatment
B Manson
B adolescent consent
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