Children's health and children's rights [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Michael Freeman

• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 344.04
• Soggetto topico: Children's rights; Children - Legal status, laws, etc; Children - Health and hygiene; Pediatrics - Law and legislation; Pediatrics - Moral and ethical aspects
• Altri autori: FreemanMichael D. A
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Michael Freeman -- Childrens Health and Childrens Rights: an Introduction / Michael Freeman -- Listening and Responding? Childrens Participation in Health Care within England / Anita Franklin and Patricia Sloper -- The Participation Rights of Premature Babies / Priscilla Alderson , Joanna Hawthorne and Margaret Killen -- Children and Research: a Risk of Double Jeopardy? / Lynn Hagger and Simon Woods -- Of Newborns and Nubiles: Some Critical Challenges to Childrens Rights in Africa in the Era of HIV/ Aids / Julia Sloth-nielsen -- Rights of the Autistic Child / ROSALIND EKMAN LADD -- Caring for Children with Severe Disabilities: Boundaried and Relational Rights / Jo Bridgeman -- Adolescent Gender Identity and the Courts / Melinda Jones -- Anorexia Nervosa and Its Moral Foundations / Simona Giordano -- Short Changed? the Law and Ethics of Male Circumcision / Marie Fox and Michael Thomson -- Communication for Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting: an Approach Based on Human Rights Principles / Neil Ford -- Rethinking Gillick / Michael Freeman -- Frail Connections: Legal and Psychiatric Knowledge Practices in U.S. Adjudication over Organ Donations by Children and Incompetent Adults / Marie-andrée Jacob -- Minors and Euthanasia / Debbie Mannaerts and Freddy Mortier -- Our Inheritance, Our Future: Their Rights? / SHEILA A.M. Mclean and J. Kenyon Mason -- Predictive Genetic Testing in Children and Respect for Autonomy / Phillipa Malpas -- Defining Parenthood / Bonnie Steinbock -- Index / Michael Freeman.
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection offers a series of essays highlighting many of the most controversial of contemporary issues relating to children, medicine and health care including the participation rights of children, genetic testing, male circumcision, organ donation, gender reassignment, the rights of autistic children, anorexia nervosa. Essays are written by a range of leading scholars across a range of disciplines. A number of the essays in this collection were previously published in the International Journal of Children's Rights.
• Titolo autorizzato: Children's health and children's rights
• ISBN: 1-281-39698-2; 9786611396985; 90-474-0869-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784719503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II