Chapter 1: When Medical Treatment and Patient Needs Clash -- Chapter 2: Overview and Reasons for Treatment Refusals -- Chapter 3: Childhood Vaccines, Hesitancy, and Refusals -- Chapter 4: Pediatric Healthcare, Ethics, and Children's Rights -- Chapter 5: Legal Implications and Consent: Informed Consent, Assent, and Parental Permission -- Chapter 6: Legal Perspectives of Treatment Refusal: Refusal Defined -- Chapter 7: In the Name of Religion: Historical Influences to Legal Exemptions -- Chapter 8: Adult Medical Treatment Refusals, Limitations, and Delays -- Chapter 9: Overview of Religious Doctrines -- Chapter 10: The Importance of Cultural Competence -- Chapter 11: Professional Groups' Reactions to Treatment Refusal: Nursing, Medicine, Researchers, and Journalists -- Chapter 12: Overview of Professional Interventions: Power Distance, Negotiation, and Safety -- Appendix A: Reasons for Parental Decisions to Refuse Medical Treatment -- Appendix B: Guidelines for Staff Facing Parental Refusal of Pediatric Vaccines or Medical Treatments -- Appendix C: Guidelines for Staff Facing Adult Refusal of Medical Treatments -- Appendix D: Loss of Parental Guardianship: Court Overriding of a Parent's Right to Refuse Medical Treatment -- Appendix E: Common Concerns About Vaccine Administration -- Appendix F: Pandemics and Trust in Rapid Vaccine Creation, Distribution, and Mandates -- Appendix G: Best Interest and the Law: Should State Statutes on Child Abuse Be Modified? -- Appendix H: Spiritual Abuse Defined -- |