Description
When are children old enough to understand medical information? When are they mature enough to make wise decisions in their best interests? This book explores these questions through detailed qualitative research. It is based on in-depth interviews with children undergoing surgery, their parents and many of the staff caring for them in four city hospitals. In their own words, the child patients challenge many of the accepted ideas about their rights, interests and abilities. Surgery at school age limb lengthening children’s human rights childrens legal rights reviewing research with children hoping for benefit reasons for having surgery giving information adults views understanding information children’s views making a wise choice competence and consent the many stages of surgery respecting childrens consent
