Children's Health and Children's Rights

About the Author Michael Freeman is Professor of English Law at University College, London. He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Children's Rights; Editor of the International Journal of Law in Context; Editor of Issues in Law and Society, General Editor of International Library of Medicine, Ethics and Law and joint-editor of the Current Legal Problems. He has published widely in the areas of family law, child law and policy, children's rights, medicine, ethics and the law and medical law, jurisprudence and legal theory. Product Description This volume examines critically some of the most pertinent and controversial issues relating to children and health care. Insights are offered into some of today's leading controversies about children and their rights. The focus is on such issues as anorexia, circumcision, autism and gender reassignment. A number of the essays in this collection were previously published in the International Journal of Children's Rights.