Abstract
Holder has identified many legal issues that confront pediatricians, neonatologists, and physicians treating minors in these liberated times. The minors, now enjoying global mobility, frequently assume attitudes of selfdeterminism and life-styles that strain the traditional legal notions of consent to treatment, contraception, abortion, venereal disease, and therapy for mental illness. This book informs the reader of the issues, explains the legal positions, and cites cases and authorities to prove the point in a manner that may please both lawyers and physicians. Then, recognizing that these problems demand new solutions, she offers her valuable insight into what the law should or may do next. She demonstrates that she is perceptively attuned to this state of flux when she discusses the problems of genetic counseling, genetic screening, fetal research, and the physician's liability for choosing not to treat a terribly deformed newborn. In many institutions, the fact that a deformed baby is
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