Best Interests Assessor Role: An Opportunity or a ‘Dead End’ for Adult Social Workers?
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DOI: 10.1080/09503153.2017.1372738
Abstract: This opinion article explores the significance of the Best Interests Assessor role in England and Wales for social workers working with adults. It considers the challenges of the role following the Supreme Court’s Cheshire West… read more here.
Keywords: best interests; assessor role; adult social; interests assessor ... See more keywords
Outsourcing the ‘best interests’ of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in the era of austerity
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DOI: 10.1080/1369183x.2017.1404266
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines the governance of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) and former UASC in the U.K. and reveals the expanding reach of asylum privatisation to unaccompanied children. In the process, the principle of the… read more here.
Keywords: best interests; seeking children; unaccompanied asylum; asylum ... See more keywords
The Voluntary Sterilisation Act: Best Interests, Caregivers, and Disability Rights.
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DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwac036
Abstract: How can caregivers' interests be balanced with disability rights in decisions about whether to sterilise an intellectually disabled person? This question is considered in the context of Singapore, a commonwealth country that lacks a test… read more here.
Keywords: disability rights; voluntary sterilisation; disability; act ... See more keywords
WHEN PARENTS CHOOSE GENDER: INTERSEX, CHILDREN, AND THE LAW.
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DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fww014
Abstract: In England and Wales, it is usually lawful for those with parental responsibility to consent to treatment on children who have not acquired legal capacity, providing that they are acting in the child's best interests.… read more here.
Keywords: best interests; law; parents choose; intersex ... See more keywords
Public health nurses' encounters with undocumented migrant mothers and children.
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DOI: 10.1111/phn.13019
Abstract: OBJECTIVES Undocumented migrant children (UMC) are often affected by policies and practices that do not take their best interests into account. The aim of this study was to describe how public health nurses (PHNs) experienced… read more here.
Keywords: health nurses; undocumented migrant; health; best interests ... See more keywords
‘Best interests’ in paediatric intensive care: an empirical ethics study
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DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2016-312076
Abstract: Objective In English paediatric practice, English law requires that parents and clinicians agree the ‘best interests’ of children and, if this is not possible, that the courts decide. Court intervention is rare and the concept… read more here.
Keywords: paediatric intensive; best interests; child best; intensive care ... See more keywords
Alfie Evans case: are the notions of best interests and futility just paternalism rebranded?
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DOI: 10.1136/bmj.k2436
Abstract: I always find McCartney’s columns thought provoking, but I think she has focused on one element in the Alfie Evans case.1 One could assume that only those who identify as religious have a belief system,… read more here.
Keywords: best interests; notions best; alfie evans; evans case ... See more keywords
Can ‘Best Interests’ derail the trolley? Examining withdrawal of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in patients in the permanent vegetative state
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DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2015-103045
Abstract: In this paper, I explore under what circumstances it might be morally acceptable to transplant organs from a patient lacking capacity. I argue, with a developed hypothetical based around a mother and son, that (1)… read more here.
Keywords: best interests; assisted nutrition; nutrition hydration; vegetative state ... See more keywords
Substituted decision making and the dispositional choice account
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DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2016-103672
Abstract: There are two main ways of understanding the function of surrogate decision making in a legal context: the Best Interests Standard and the Substituted Judgment Standard. First, we will argue that the Best Interests Standard… read more here.
Keywords: decision; best interests; substituted decision; interests standard ... See more keywords
Charlie Gard: in defence of the law
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DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2017-104721
Abstract: Much of the commentary in the wake of the Charlie Gard litigation was aimed at apparent shortcomings of the law. These include concerns about the perceived inability of the law to consider resourcing issues, the… read more here.
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Too much medicine and the poor climate of trust (authors’ response)
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DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2019-105401
Abstract: Joshua Parker has made many interesting points1, and we welcome the opportunity to develop the ideas of ‘Too Much Medicine, Not Enough Trust’.2 We will address: (i) the asymmetry between the trust that patients extend to… read more here.
Keywords: medicine; best interests; much medicine; trust ... See more keywords