Bioethics #6

According to the professor, what is one way a critic of Brooks' paper could meet her part-way in one of her argument points?

By admitting that, if the law were to change to allow adolescent patients to refuse treatments in more situations, it would need to adjust to make parents not responsible for the outcomes in those situations.

According to Catherine Brooks, in Pierce v. Society of Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary and Hill Military Academy (1925), the _____ was again asked about the parents rights to make decisions for their children without ____ intrusion.

Court; State

According to William Winslade, it is sometimes said that physicians treat patients as _______ if they disagree with a treatment recommendation and ______ if they agree.

Incompetent, Competent

According to William Winslade, in the law, adults are presumed to be competent to consent to or refuse medical treatment, unless they have been adjudicated to be incompetent. Competent persons in a medical context must do all of the following except...what?

Make an involuntary choice of whether to consent or refuse the recommendations.

According to William Winslade, in cases of adolescents who are asking to make decisions about accepting or refusing a medical treatment, it is [?] who benefits from, or endures the burdens of, medical treatment or refusal.

The adolescent patient

According to Catherine Brooks, what was the final decision in the court case Meyer v. Nebraska?

The parents had a constitutionally protected liberty interest in raising their children, AND the state had improperly intruded on the parents' right to raise their children as those parents saw fit.