It's not the growth attenuation, it's the sterilization!

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-46

  Lantos, John ^a  

^a CHILDREN S MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD ADVOCACY; CONTRACEPTION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISABLED PERSON; DRUG EFFECT; ETHICS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; PARENT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONHOOD; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURGERY;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD ADVOCACY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DISABLED PERSONS; ESTROGENS; ETHICS COMMITTEES; ETHICS, CLINICAL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MASTECTOMY; MENTAL RETARDATION; PARENTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONHOOD; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STERILIZATION, INVOLUNTARY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 75149156932     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265160903441079     Document Type: Article

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