Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Young Children

Imogen Goold is Associate Professor and Jonathan Herring is Professor, both at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.Cressida Auckland is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• 1. Introduction Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and Jonathan Herring2. Identifying Who and What, then How: Attending to the Role of the Decision-Maker in the Normative Debate about the Best Interests Standard Rosalind McDougall3. Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harm: Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children in Belgium Ingrid Boone4. ‘Parental Rights’, ‘Best Interests’ and the Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment of Children in Scotland: A Lack of Authority Alan Brown5. Parental Decisions on their Children’s Medical Treatment in Switzerland Andrea Büchler6. Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Minors: The Hong Kong Context Daisy Cheung7. Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children in China: A Multidimensional Analysis of Parental Authoritarianism Ding Chunyan8. Parental Rights in Mexican Law Mariana Dobernig Gago9. Decision-Making on Behalf of Children in the Research and Clinical Context: A United States Perspective Leslie Francis, Jeff Botkin and Douglas Diekema10. Withholding and Withdrawal of Life-Prolonging Treatment from Young Children in Israel Roy Gilbar11. Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children in English and Welsh Law: A Child-Centred Best Interests Approach Imogen Goold, Cressida Auckland and Jonathan Herring12. Parental Rights, Best Interests and Significant Harms: Singapore and Malaysia Perspectives on Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children Calvin WL Ho and Sharon Kaur13. Decisions about their Body: Children’s Rights and Parental Responsibility in Chile Fabiola Lathrop Gómez14. Who has the Final Word? On Trust and Legal Uncertainty within the Swedish Healthcare System Pernilla Leviner15. Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Children in Ireland Lydia Bracken and John Lombard16. Decisionally Incapable Children and Medical Treatment Choices in Canada Constance MacIntosh17. Offering a Reasonable Future: Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from Infants in French Law with Illustrations from a Parisian Neonatal Resuscitation Unit Jean-Frédéric Ménard18. Parental Responsibility and Medical Decision-Making in Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis ofSouth Africa and Botswana Admark Moyo19. Young Children and Healthcare Decisions in Spain: Who Decides? Monica Navarro-Michel20. Who Decides the Best Interests of the Child in the End-of-Life Process? A Look at the Peruvian and Argentine Reality Paula Siverino Bavio21. Reviewing Medical Decisions Concerning Infants within the Norwegian Healthcare System: A Public Law Approach Karl Harald Sovig22. Children and Medical Decision-Making in Australia Post-Gard: A Possible Reformulation Cameron Stewart23. Parental Authoritarianism and Medical Decision-Making in Thailand: The Need to Limit Parental Authority Thitinant Tengaumnuay24. Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Critically Ill Minors in Greece Theodoros Trokanas25. Making Decisions for Children in Healthcare and Medical Research: African Communal Responsibility or Individual Rights? Samuel J Ujewe26. The Relevance of Cultural Competence to Resolving Disputes in Relation to Medical Decisions for Children Ben Gray27. Legal and Cultural Differences in Medical Decision-Making on Behalf of Very Young Children Imogen Goold and Cressida Auckland

I urge anyone who is interested in medical law and ethics to read this book. The way in which the law is presented and analysed through different jurisdictional vistas is a tour de force. You will not be disappointed ... This book has provided us with a window seat to the evolving medico-legal and familial drama that applies to these sad and emotionally challenging multijurisdictional cases.