Medical interventions for children born with variations in their sex characteristics: what's the rights approach?
Monash Bioeth Rev
; 39(Suppl 1): 67-81, 2021 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-34642908
ABSTRACT
There have been growing calls within Australia and beyond to defer medical interventions for children born with variations in their sex characteristics. These calls are increasingly grounded in the claim that such interventions when performed on infants and young children are a violation of their human rights. This paper examines the basis for this claim. It also examines the differences between the principles-based approach to medical ethics which has tended to dominant decisions regarding the treatment of children born with variations in their sex characteristics, relative to the adoption of a rights-based approach. It identifies the points of complementarity between these two discourses but suggests that a rights-based approach offers some unique and differing insights into several issues concerning children born with variations in their sex characteristics.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Trastornos del Desarrollo Sexual
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Caracteres Sexuales
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Ethics
Límite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Monash Bioeth Rev
Asunto de la revista:
ETICA
Año:
2021
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Australia