DOI: 10.1002/hast.70100 ISSN: 0093-0334

Refining Relational Potential: The Concept of Relational Salience

Aaron Wightman, Jennifer Kett, Georgina Campelia, Benjamin S. Wilfond

Abstract

This letter responds to three pieces in the March‐April 2026 issue of the Hastings Center Report: “Making Medical Decisions for Children with Profound Cognitive Disabilities: Pluralism and the Best Interest Standard,” “A Life Worth Sustaining? Bestowed Worth and Pediatric Care,” and “Why Pediatric Ethics Needs a Theory of Goodness .”

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