Children's informed consent to treatment: is the law an ass?

Journal of Medical Ethics 20 (4):205-222 (1994)
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Anomaly in English law between age of children's permitted consent to treatment and much lower age of criminal responsibility

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10.1136/jme.20.4.205

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