Living with Uncertainty: Acting in the Best Interests of Women [PDF]
AIDS Research and Treatment, 2012 A recent multi-country study on hormonal contraceptives (HC) and HIV acquisition and transmission among African HIV-serodiscordant couples reported a statistically significant doubling of risk for HIV acquisition among women as well as transmission from ...
Erica Gollub, Zena Stein
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Treatment in patients' best interests. [PDF]
London J Prim Care (Abingdon), 2016 A note on the current state of the law as regards balancing the autonomy, and personal values, of a mentally incapacitated patient against treatment plans with which they do not agree. The author summarises the outcomes of two medical treatment cases heard by the Court of Protection, with similar facts and different results, by way of adding to the ...
Gee L.
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The theorisation of ‘best interests’ in bioethical accounts of decision-making [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2021 Background Best interests is a ubiquitous principle in medical policy and practice, informing the treatment of both children and adults. Yet theory underlying the concept of best interests is unclear and rarely articulated. This paper examines bioethical
Giles Birchley
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Legal and Ethical Aspects of ‘Best Interests’ Decision-Making for Medical Treatment of Companion Animals in the UK [PDF]
Animals, 2020 Medical decisions for young children are made by those with parental responsibility, with legal involvement only if the decision is potentially detrimental to the child’s welfare.
Carol Gray, Peter Fordyce
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“You can’t put your luck on people”: a qualitative study of family views on the best interests decision-making process concerning adult kidney care in England [PDF]
BMC NephrologyBackground When an adult patient lacks decision-making capacity, care decisions must be made on their behalf in their “best interests”. We know little about the experiences of the family members of adult kidney patients with cognitive impairments ...
Jordan A. Parsons +2 more
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A Hospital and Health Service v C [2025] QSC 178-Termination of Pregnancy for a Minor: Consideration of "Best Interests" Post Enactment of the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld). [PDF]
J Bioeth InqOkninski ME.
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Laws, 2023 A recent trend can be seen in jurisprudence concerning the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, at least in the Australasia/Pacific region.
Mark Henaghan +2 more
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Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2023 In Ex parte JCR 2022 5 SA 202 (GP) the Pretoria High Court per Neukircher J seeks to introduce new requirements for all surrogacy agreements in South African law.
Willene Holness +6 more
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Jurnal HAM, 2022 Children have an important positioning in spheres of human life, starting from the scope of family life to the state, therefore every policy must be able to guarantee the fulfillment of children’s rights.
M. Nur Syafiuddin
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The Concept of Child Pornography in Turkish Law in Consideration of International Conventions
Ceza Hukuku ve Kriminoloji Dergisi, 2023 Child pornography tops the list of child abuse. For this reason, international regulations have been made to prevent child pornography, and states have been requested to regulate acts related to child pornography as crimes within their domestic laws ...
Şölen Çakıroğlu
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