The Ethics of Fertility Preservation for Paediatric Cancer Patients: From Offer to Rebuttable Presumption

Rosalind McDougall

Journal article

The Ethics of Fertility Preservation for Paediatric Cancer Patients: From Offer to Rebuttable Presumption

Rosalind McDougall

Bioethics | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12190

University of Melbourne Researchers

Ros McDougall Author Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

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Awarded by Australian Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

I am grateful to Clare Delany, Lynn Gillam and audiences at the International Association for Bioethics conference in Mexico City 2014 and the National Paediatric Bioethics Conference in Melbourne 2014 for their helpful feedback on an earlier draft of this paper. I am also indebted to Lauren Notini for research assistance and to Harene Ranjithakumaran for help with additional references. This work was funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE120100488).