Medical Neglect Towards Children: Causes, Impacts, Prevention

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.

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Battered Child Syndrome: Review of 130 Patients With Controls

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.54.1.67 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 67-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Brian Lauer ◽

Elsa Ten Broeck ◽

Moses Grossman

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

Control Group ◽

Battered Child Syndrome ◽

White Children ◽

Only Children ◽

Battered Child ◽

Physical Injuries ◽

Medical Neglect ◽

Child Syndrome ◽

Ethnic Distribution

The medical and social service records of the 130 battered children under 10 years of age admitted to San Francisco General Hospital during a six-year period, July 1, 1965, to June 30, 1971, were reviewed. Only children with physical injuries were included. A control group was selected from concurrent admissions. The findings showed a steadily rising number of admissions for child abuse. Many of the children suffered from emotional, physical and medical neglect as well as intentional trauma and 44% had been abused previously. Six children died. Sixty-three percent of the battered children were less than 2 years old. Their parents were significantly younger than parents of controls and also much more transient. White children rather than nonwhite children were battered more often than expected when compared to the ethnic distribution of the control group.

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Religion, Law, and the Medical Neglect of Children in the United States, 1870–2000 by Lynne Curry

The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth ◽

10.1353/hcy.2021.0033 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

pp. 479-481

Author(s):

Linda Bryder

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Medical Neglect

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Medical Neglect of the Child

Revista de Chimie ◽

10.37358/rc.19.8.7467 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 70 (8) ◽

pp. 2973-2976

Author(s):

Cosmin Alexandru Ciora ◽

Vlad Dumitru Baleanu ◽

Dragos Virgil Davitoiu ◽

Daniel Iulian Voiculescu ◽

Cristian Virgil Lungulescu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Medical Neglect

The medical carelessness of the child still remains an actual topic despite the evident evolution of the society from the last years. The study has been made during 12 months on 370 of hospitalized cases, showing worrying levels of the medical carelessness percent which attains to 80%. The percent is linked to modifications of certain parameters, the elaboration and the use of standardized questionnaires may represent an useful instrument of the medical abuse recognition since the anamnesis moment.

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Severely Handicapped Infants with Life-Threatening Conditions: Federal Intrusions Into the Decision Not To Treat

American Journal of Law & Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0098858800008753 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 171-205

Author(s):

Dixie Snow Huefner

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Federal Government ◽

Child Abuse Prevention ◽

Abuse Prevention ◽

Inadequate Response ◽

Complex Needs ◽

Parental Decision Making ◽

Medical Neglect ◽

Prevention And Treatment ◽

Life Threatening

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.

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