| Managing ethically questionable parental requests: Growth suppression and manipulation of puberty. | |
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PMID: 21951436 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Doctors sometimes struggle with ethically challenging requests for treatment from children's parents. For instance, we have recently had two requests by parents of children, a girl and a boy, each with a severe developmental disability, for hormonal therapy to suppress growth and puberty: the girl's parents requested, in addition, hysterectomy and mastectomy. We propose a reliable approach to assessing the ethical and legal aspects of these and other requests for 'non-therapeutic' treatment of a minor who lacks the capacity to give informed consent. We argue that a doctor should first assess whether the request is one that he or she can, in conscience, accede to, and then, if it is, seek the authorisation of a court. We outline considerations relevant to the doctor's assessment of both the ethical issues and to the need for court authorisation. |
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David Isaacs; Bernadette Tobin; Julie Hamblin; Emma Slaytor; Kim C Donaghue; Craig Munns; Henry A Kilham |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of paediatrics and child health Volume: 47 ISSN: 1440-1754 ISO Abbreviation: J Paediatr Child Health Publication Date: 2011 Sep |
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Created Date: 2011-09-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9005421 Medline TA: J Paediatr Child Health Country: Australia |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 581-4 Citation Subset: IM |
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© 2011 The Authors. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health © 2011 Paediatrics and Child Health Division (Royal Australasian College of Physicians). |
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Clinical Ethics Advisory Committee Deparment of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital at Westmead, Westmead Discipline of Child Health, University of Sydney HWL Ebsworth, Solicitors, Sydney Plunkett Centre for Ethics in Health Care, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia. |
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