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Foreword,
Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Health and Sports (France). . 1
The adolescent and medical treatment in French law: the erosion of parental
authority?,
Francis Kernaleguen, Professor at the University of Rennes 1 (IODE,
UMR CNRS 6262), France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The adolescent and medical treatment,
Mohamed Amine Benjelloun, Casablanca (Morocco) Child Psychiatrist,
Associate Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychology, Marseille,
Guillaume Bronsard, Medical Director, Maison de l’Adolescent,
Marseille and Marcel Rufo, Professor of Child Psychiatry, Espace
Arthur, Marseille, France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The cave allegory: a useful paradigm for understanding adolescence,
Pierre Le Coz, Senior lecturer in Philosophy, Marseille Medical School
(EA 3783), Vice-president of the National Advisory Committee on
Ethics, France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ethics in adolescent care,
David Le Breton, Professor of Sociology, University of Strasbourg,
Member of the Institut universitaire de France, Member of URA-CNRS
Laboratory, Cultures and Societies in Europe, France. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Adolescents and medical treatment in the Federal Republic of Germany.
A growing autonomy despite the regrettable silence of the legislator,
Françoise Furkel, Centre for Franco-German Law, University of Sarre,
Germany. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The extent of minor autonomy and medical care in Belgian law,
Geneviève Schamps, Director, Centre for Medical and Biomedical Law
Professor, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Medical treatment and adolescent autonomy in Brazil: bioethical and legal per-
spectives,
Anderson Orestes Cavalcante Lobato, Professor, Faculty of Law of
the Federal University of Rio Grande, FURG, Brazil, and
Maria-Claudia Crespo-Brauner, Professor, Federal University of Pelo-
tas and the University of Caxias do Sul – UCS, RS, Associate
Researcher at the CNPQ, DF, Brazil. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

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Adolescents and medical treatment in Spain,
Verónica San Julian, Professor of Civil Law, Faculty of Law, Univer-
sity of Navarre, Spain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
An approach to adolescent health questions in Greek law,
Penelope Agallopoulou, Emeritus Professor, University of Piraeus,
Greece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Adolescents and medical law in Hungary,
Judit Sándor, Professor of Law, Central European University Budapest,
Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Adolescence and medical treatment: the Italian situation,
Stéphane Bauzon, Professor of Law and Bioethics “Jean Monnet”
Faculty for Political Studies, University of Naples 2, Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Adolescents and medical treatment in Japan,
Ryuichi Ida, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Kyoto, Japan. . . 207
The position of adolescents in Dutch medical law,
J.G. Sijmons, Professor in Medical Law, Utrecht University, Molengraaff
Institute, Holland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Medical treatment and the adolescent in Portugal: towards modern regulation,
André Gonçalo Dias Pereira, Centre for Biomedical Law, Faculty of
Law, University of Coimbra, Portugal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
The relative autonomy of the “mature minor” in English law,
Thérèse Callus, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Reading, United
Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
The rights of adolescent patients in Switzerland,
Dominique Manaï, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva,
Switzerland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Adolescents and medical treatment in Tunisia: some necessary reflections,
Amel Aouij-Mrad, Professor, Tunis Faculty of Law and Political
Science, Tunisia and Salwa Hamrouni, Assistant Lecturer, Tunis
Faculty of Law Political and Social Sciences, Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
The rights of adolescents in healthcare in the USA: a complex legal patchwork
and an evolving situation,
Kristina Orfali, Associate Clinical Professor for Bioethics in Pediatrics,
Columbia University, New York, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
The legal status of adolescents in Quebec: general principles and specific rules
for medical treatment,
Alain Roy, LL. D., Professor at the University of Montreal, Quebec –
Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309

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Adolescents and medical treatment: a common reality?,
Brigitte Feuillet-Liger, Professor of Law, University of Rennes I,
Member of Institut Universitaire de France, Director of the CRJO
(IODE, UMR CNRS No. 6262), France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

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