Informed consent to the medical treatment of minors

Abstract

The protection versus autonomy binomial is presented as a key factor in the recent evolution of the legal treatment of the rights of children and adolescents, following the pattern of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and presided over by the principles of the best interests of the Child and the individual's progressive ability. The present article is interested in deepening the legal status of capacity to exercise the rights of the personality, in particular the right to life and physical integrity, in case the holder is a minor. In other words, what is the power of disposition that children and adolescents have about their life and physical integrity in the field of medical and therapeutic activity.