Dr Rosalind McDougall is a Research Fellow in Ethics in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. She is an ethicist with expertise in philosophical bioethics and qualitative research. Her work focuses on bioethical issues around parenthood and families.
Her current project is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, and addresses the question “when should health professionals override parents’ decisions about a child’s medical treatment?”.
When parents disagree with doctors on a child's treatment, who should have the final say?
Sep 07, 2016 10:34 am UTC| Health Life
Doctors and parents sometimes disagree about a childs medical treatment. As the recent case of six-year-old boy Oshin Kiszko highlights, some disagreements between doctors and parents cant be resolved by further...