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Old enough to know best?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Jo Bridgeman
Jo Bridgeman*
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University of Liverpool
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Are there now any circumstances in which a teenage may effectively withhold her consent to medical treatment? By effectively, I mean not only that she can refuse to consent to treatment but also that this refusal is respected and the treatment prevented.

Consent to medical advice and treatment, the givingofwhich means that a doctor does or does not commit a battery (criminal or civil) on her patient, necessarily involves both the giving of consent and the withholding of consent. Without one the other has no meaning.

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Research Article
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Legal Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , March 1993, pp. 69 - 80
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1993

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