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Clinical ethics

the proposal that the state should override parental refusal of a child's treatment only when the refusal places the child at significant risk of serious harm.

In clinical ethics, harm threshold refers to the proposal that the state should override parental refusal of a child's treatment only when the refusal places the child at significant risk of serious harm. This meaning comes from Diekema (2004) in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics.[1]

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Diekema, D. (2004). Parental refusals of medical treatment: the harm principle as threshold for state intervention. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 25(4), 243-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-004-3146-6

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