Reading Questions for 3/18

Navin, Mark Christopher, and Jason Adam Wasserman. 2017. “Reasons to Amplify the Role of Parental Permission in Pediatric Treatment.”

What disease do Navin and Wasserman use to illustrate the idea that parents often bring important facts into medical decision making that help illuminate the child’s interests? Why, according to Navin and Wasserman, might parents be in the best position to report such facts?

Schuklenk, Udo. 2015. “Physicians can justifiably euthanize certain severely impaired neonates.”

According to Schuklenk, when is continued life no longer in a severely impaired neonate’s best interest?

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