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Dominic Wilkinson: Death or disability? The “Carmentis Machine” and decision-making for critically ill children

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  1. “Those cases in which reasonable and responsible persons can and do disagree about whether the ‘life’ after treatment will be ‘worthing living’ or ‘normal,’ and thus about what is ‘right,’ are precisely those in which parents must remain free of coercive state intervention in deciding whether to reject or consent to the medical program offered to their child” [7, p. 94].

  2. “In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration” [8, art. 3.1].

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González-Melado, F.J. Dominic Wilkinson: Death or disability? The “Carmentis Machine” and decision-making for critically ill children . Theor Med Bioeth 36, 363–368 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-015-9335-7

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