Assigning responsibility for children's health when parents and authorities disagree: whose child?

Chapter 1. Introduction, and What We Owe the Child -- Part 1: Prior approaches to state intervention -- Chapter 2. The Primrose Path: Rights and Autonomy -- Chapter 3. What Is Relevant: Interests, Needs, and Harms -- Chapter 4. What We Owe Parents and Family -- Chapter 5. What Society May Claim: Public Health -- Part 2: The State Intervention Test (SIT) and its Theoretical Basis -- Chapter 6. Political Considerations in a Liberal Pluralist State -- Chapter 7. The State Intervention Test: When to Interfere with Parental Decisions -- Part 3: Applications of the State Intervention Test -- Chapter 8. Treatment of Disease -- Chapter 9. Prevention and Screening -- Chapter 10. Enhancement of Function -- Chapter 11. The Maturing Minor -- Chapter 12. Sexual And Reproductive Issues I: Education; Reproductive Choices -- Chapter 13. Sexual And Reproductive Issues II: Departures From Binary Sexual and Gender Viewpoints -- Chapter 14. Genital Rituals: Circumcision -- Chapter 15. Genital Rituals: Female Genital Alteration -- Chapter 16. Conclusion. .

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: What We Owe the Child -- 1.1 The Problem -- 1.2 My Approach -- 1.3 Prioritization of Parental and Child Interests -- 1.4 What Parents Owe Children -- 1.5 Capabilities and Functioning -- 1.6 Non-liberal Approaches -- 1.6.1 Vulnerability -- 1.6.2 Critical Theory -- 1.7 Procedural Fairness -- 1.8 The Book's Project -- 1.9 Outline of the Book -- 1.10 Conclusion: What, then, Do We Owe Children? -- 1.11 Nomenclature and Style -- References -- Part I Prior Approaches to State Intervention -- 2 The Primrose Path: Rights and Autonomy -- 2.1 Rights and Interests -- 2.2 Rights as Hohfeldian Relationships -- 2.3 Dignity -- 2.4 A Rights-Based Philosophical Approach to Child-Rearing -- 2.5 Summary of General Rights Discussion -- 2.6 Autonomy and Balance of Power -- 2.7 Consent as the Portal into Autonomy -- 2.8 Autonomy and Choice -- 2.9 Undue Influence and Coercion -- 2.10 Autonomy and Relationships -- 2.11 Autonomy, the State, Health, and Education -- 2.12 Choice and Its Preservation: Open Future -- 2.13 Conclusion -- References -- 3 What is Relevant: Interests, Needs, and Harms -- 3.1 Natural History of the Parent-State Conflict -- 3.2 The Guidance Principle -- 3.3 Using the Needs Principle to Govern the Identification Phase of State Intervention -- 3.4 Harm and the Harm Principle -- 3.5 An Ideal Best Interests Standard is Incompatible with Liberal Pluralism -- 3.5.1 The Resolution Step -- 3.5.2 Delineation of Interests and Harms is Conclusory -- 3.6 Conflicts Between Health and Other Interests -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- 4 What We Owe Parents and Family -- 4.1 Introduction: What Are Family Interests? -- 4.2 Different Roles -- 4.2.1 Parents -- 4.2.2 Physicians and Other Professionals -- 4.2.3 Differences in Stance with Respect to the Child: Physician, Parent, and State.