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Assisted Reproduction; Family Law; Genetics; Health Care; Informed Consent
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Neither Father Nor Doctor “Knows Best”: From Tradition To Choice In The Family And On The Wards, Janet L. Dolgin
Neither Father Nor Doctor “Knows Best”: From Tradition To Choice In The Family And On The Wards, Janet L. Dolgin
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This review article analyzes 3 developments within the world of health care that involve concomitant changes in the scope of family and the form of family relationships. The first follows from construction of the informed‐consent doctrine and its implementation, the second stems from stunning innovations in reproductive technology, and the third involves the increasing significance of genetic information for medicine. The article suggests that an analysis of changing relationships within the world of health care may offer insights about shifts in the meaning of family. As social domains, the world of family and the world of health care have undergone …