In addition to benefits and harms: the relevance of the political.
When working with parents of deaf children, clinicians and educators should explicitly add political-justice considerations to benefit-harm considerations in their ethical analyses of available interventions to prevent or reverse children's hearing impairments.
Russell
Barbara
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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics in Toronto, Ontario. barbara_russell@camh.net
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003054:Cochlear Implants; D003638:Deafness / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D019986:Persons with Hearing Disabilities / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D011057:Politics