Conflating Capacity & Authority: Why We're Asking the Wrong Question in the Adolescent Decision-Making Debate

Whether adolescents should be allowed to make their own medical decisions has been a topic of discussion in bioethics for at least two decades now. Are adolescents sufficiently capacitated to make their own medical decisions? Is the mature-minor doctrine, an uncommon legal exception to the rule of p...

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Main Author: Salter, Erica K. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2017
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 2017, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-41
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