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  1. Sterilisation of incompetent mentally handicapped persons: a model for decision making.J. P. Denekens, H. Nys & H. Stuer - 1999 - Journal of Medical Ethics 25 (3):237-241.
    Doctors are regularly confronted with requests for sterilisation of mentally handicapped people who cannot give consent for themselves. They ought to act in a medical vacuum because there doesn't exist a consensus about a model for decision making on this matter. In this article a model for decision making is proposed, based on a review of the literature and our own research data. We have attempted to select and classify certain factors which could enable us to arrive at an ethically (...)
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