Child Health Advice and Parental Obligation: The Case of Safe Sleep Recommendations and Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy.
Bioethics
; 30(2): 129-38, 2016 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-26171761
ABSTRACT
This article considers whether there is a parental obligation to comply with child health advice which is aimed at the general population and grounded in population-based research. Drawing upon the concept of role obligations, I argue that there is a temptation to use child health advice as a set of rules to which parents are morally obligated to comply, but that this temptation should be resisted. Using the case of Safe Sleep recommendations, designed to reduce the risk of sleep-related infant deaths, I present three reasons for doubting that parents are obligated, as a matter of course, to comply with child health advice. I suggest that, rather than compliance, deliberation about child health advice is obligatory, and that parents should have reasons for not following credible child health advice.
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Assunto principal:
Pais
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Sono
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Morte Súbita do Lactente
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Decúbito Dorsal
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Obrigações Morais
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Saúde do Lactente
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2016
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Article