Assigning Responsibility for Children's Health When Parents and Authorities Disagree: Whose Child?

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the potential conflict between a government’s duty to protect children and a parent(s)’ right to raise children in a manner they see fit. Using philosophical, bioethical, and legal analysis, the author engages with key scholars in pediatric decision—making and individual and religious rights theory. Going beyond the parent—child dyad, the author is deeply concerned both with the inteests of the broader society and with the appropriate limit...