A critical realist analysis of consent to surgery for children, human nature and dialectic: the pulse of freedom

Journal of Critical Realism 19 (2):159-178 (2020)
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Consent can only be voluntary, freely given and uncoerced. Can this legal adult standard also apply to children? High-risk surgery is seldom a wanted choice, but compared with the dangers of the un...

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