@article{ref1,
title="The best-interests standard as threshold, ideal, and standard of reasonableness",
journal="Journal of medicine and philosophy",
year="1997",
author="Kopelman, Loretta M.",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="271-289",
abstract="The best-interests standard is a widely used ethical, legal, and social basis for policy and decision-making involving children and other incompetent persons. It is under attack, however, as self-defeating, individualistic, unknowable, vague, dangerous, and open to abuse. The author defends this standard by identifying its employment, first, as a threshold for intervention and judgment (as in child abuse and neglect rulings), second, as an ideal to establish policies or prima facie duties, and, third, as a standard of reasonableness. Criticisms of the best-interests standard are reconsidered after clarifying these different meanings.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0360-5310",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}