![]() | Anthony Skelton Associate Professor of Philosophy - University of Western Ontario Philosophie |
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02.07.2015-28.08.2015
Children’s Consent to Medical Treatment: A Philosophical and Comparative Legal Study
• To apply philosophical accounts of children’s welfare to the legal issue of children’s consent to medical treatment. • To investigate the relation between decision-making capacity, values, and voluntariness, in order to evaluate court practice in respect of children’s consent to medical treatment. • To develop a rigorous account of the circumstances in which children’s consent to medical treatment should be upheld or overridden. • To conduct comparative investigation of the legal regimes for children’s consent in England and Wales, and Canada. • To test the plausibility of philosophical accounts of children’s welfare in light of the outcomes predicted in the children’s consent setting. • To write and submit two journal articles from the project during the stay at Brocher, and a further article after we leave.
Associate Professor University of Western Ontario