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Sterilization and a Mentally Handicapped Minor: Providing Consent for One Who Cannot

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2009

Gabrielle M. Applebaum  and
John La Puma
Gabrielle M. Applebaum
Affiliation:
A graduate in philosophy from the University of Chicago and is presently pursuing a Master's degree in Divinity at Harvard University
John La Puma
Affiliation:
Clinical Professor Medicine at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and a Consultant in Clinical Ethics at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois
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The moral standing of involuntary sterilization has long been subject to debate but has only recently been looked upon with disfavor. When sterilization of a mentally handicapped minor is entertained, issues of eugenics, medical ethics, and legal precedent specially arise. Ethics consultants and ethics committees have been asked to consider such cases.

Type
Special Section: Ethical Decision Making and Persons with Mental Retardation
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Spring 1994 , pp. 209 - 215
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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