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 LAW HeinOnline Civil Rights and Social Justice    ONLINE  
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Author United States Commission on Civil Rights, author.
Title Medical discrimination against children with disabilities : a report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
OCLC ccn00614654
Publisher Washington, D.C. : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, [1989]
[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Co., [2015]
Description 1 online resource (ix, 513 pages).
LC Subject heading/s Infants -- Abnormalities -- Treatment -- United States.
Children with disabilities -- Medical care -- United States.
Infant health services -- United States -- Decision making.
Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
Infant health services -- Government policy -- United States.
Children with disabilities -- Hospital care -- United States.
Child abuse -- Investigation -- United States.
LC
Genre heading/s		 Electronic books.
General note "September 1989."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Fundamental rights: an introduction to medical discrimination against people with disabilities -- The physician-parent relationship and treatment/nontreatment decision-making -- The role of quality of life assessments in denial of medical treatment -- The role of economic considerations in denials of medical treatment -- State law -- The rehabilitation Act of 1973 -- The child abuse amendments of 1984 -- Constitutional issues -- The incidence of discriminatory denial of medical treatment -- Child protective services agencies and enforcement of the child abuse amendments of 1984 -- The role and performance of infant care review committees -- The performance of the federal government -- The protection and advocacy system: a resource for enforcement -- Findings and recommendations.
Summary "Preparation of the substantive content of the report was carried out primarily by Commission attorney Thomas J. Balch and Assistant General Counsel Jeffery P. O'Connell. Also contributing to the report were Commission attorneys Vincent A. Mulloy, Susan T. Muskett, and Joseph J. Piccione."--Page v.
Source of Description Description based on PDF title page, viewed July 6, 2015.
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