Consciousness, Conflations, and Disability Rights: Denials of Care for Children in the “Minimally Conscious State”

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 50 (1):181-183 (2022)
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This essay critiques the fiercely utilitarian allocation scheme of Cameron et al. Children have no hope of recovery if their lives are cut short based on administrative protocols that misrepresent the nature of their conditions. Unilateral futility judgements - especially those based on a false predicate - are discriminatory. When considering the best interests of children, we should see possibility in disability and not advance ill-informed utilitarianism.

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