Medical Child Abuse and Medical Neglect

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Jenny ◽  
James B. Metz
PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-652
Author(s):  
NANCY S. JECKER

In a recent statement, the American Academy of peatrics' Committee on Bioethics maintained that "all child abuse, neglect, and medical neglect statutes should be applied without potential or actual exemption from religious beliefs." The AAP recommendation should be hailed. But sufficient attention should also be paid to the justification for it in philosophical and moral argument. This will ensure that the recommendation is followed in the long run, by providing physicians and others with a compelling reason to challenge present statutes that oppose it.


Poisons ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 291-296
Author(s):  
David J. George

1986 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-205
Author(s):  
Dixie Snow Huefner

AbstractIn recent years the federal government has attempted to intervene in certain family-medical decisions to withhold treatment from seriously handicapped newborns with life-threatening conditions. Invoking section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination against “otherwise qualified handicapped” individuals, the Reagan Administration promulgated regulations allowing federal government investigations of such decisions. Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld lower court decisions invalidating these “Baby Doe” regulations. The federal government's fall-back position is reflected in the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Amendments of 1984, requiring states accepting funds under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act to establish and maintain procedures to assure that cases of medical neglect of handicapped infants are investigated by the states. Although the primary oversight of parental decision-making has been returned to the states where it has traditionally belonged, the federal government's definition of medical neglect of handicapped infants with life-threatening conditions is an ethically inadequate response to the complex needs of the handicapped child, the family, the medical profession, and society as a whole. After examining the relevance of Kantian, utilitarian, and Rawlsian ethical positions, the author contends that an effective governmental policy, capable of enforcement and acceptance by the public, must utilize the strengths of each philosophy and reflect the pragmatism of American society.


2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Roesler ◽  
Carole Jenny

Powerful new detailed and comprehensive resource for diagnosing and treating medical child abuse. Thomas A. Roesler, MD and Carole Jenny, MD, MBA, FAAP make the case that the term Munchausen syndrome by proxy should be retired permanently and replaced with a commonsense appreciation that children can be abused by their parents in the medical environment. Physicians who find themselves providing unnecessary and harmful medical care can see the abuse for what it is, another way parents can harm children. The book offers the first detailed and comprehensive description of treatment for this form of child maltreatment. “At last. A clear, logical, and immensely practical book, showing that this is not a syndrome at all, but rather another important form of child abuse…and one which is completely preventable.” Kim Oates, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, The University of Sydney, Australia. “A fantastic book that will revolutionize, in a much needed way, the way we think about this disorder.” Alex V. Levin, MD, MHSc, FAAP, FAAO, FRCSC, Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Genetics, and Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences Director, Postgraduate Bioethics Education University of Toronto. “Drs. Roesler and Jenny have finally mapped the terrain of child abuse showing where medical child abuse stands in the overall landscape.” Thomas L. Dwyer, Director of Foster Care, Department of Children and Families, State of Connecticut.


2019 ◽  
pp. 673-701
Author(s):  
Paige Culotta ◽  
Jonathan Thackeray

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