Word: consents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PERHAPS THE MOST common examples of the courts ruling this way with regard to normal children are those in which Jehovah's Witness parents refuse consent because their religion forbids transfusions. The courts have traditionally overridden the parents' religious scruples and ordered the operation in the best interest (and to protect the right) of the innocent child. The court would not rule in the case of an adult of sound mind refusing consent to an operation on himself...
...such cases are complicated by the very nature of the parents' refusal for consent. That is, the decision has implicit overtones with regard to the questions of church vs. state supremacy and rights assured by the First Amendment...
...Mongoloids only marginally capable of coping with a classroom situation, and therefore deny them entrance. Most institutions contend that these children are at best merely "trainable" or "educable." However, it is of particular interest that no single religious or socio-economic group has a monopoly on couples who refuse consent for necessary surgical correction in such cases...
...first is that the risk to the patient be negligible and that it not impede his progress if he is under treatment for an ailment. If that progress can be accelerated by another means, then the experimenter should not try a dubious treatment. Second, the subject must provide informed consent to participate in any experiment...
...certain fatty acid to be put in their baby foods. The study--conducted at the University of Texas--involved depriving mostly black infants of linoleic acid, a component of milk necessary for growth and development. Because the black babies were apparently all orphaned and wards of the state, no consent was awarded in the babies' interests. The few white infants, children of interns, served as the "controls" receiving the normal diet of the essential nutrient...