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Consciousness, Conflations, and Disability Rights: Denials of Care for Children in the “Minimally Conscious State”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2022
Abstract
This essay critiques the fiercely utilitarian allocation scheme of Cameron et al. Children have no hope of recovery if their lives are cut short based on administrative protocols that misrepresent the nature of their conditions. Unilateral futility judgements - especially those based on a false predicate - are discriminatory. When considering the best interests of children, we should see possibility in disability and not advance ill-informed utilitarianism.
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- Independent Articles: Commentary
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- Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 50 , Issue 1: Health Law and Anti-Racism: Reckoning and Response , Spring 2022 , pp. 181 - 183
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- © 2022 The Author(s)
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