The Ethics Toolkit is a series within Essential Ethics designed to give clinicians a clear understanding of the tools that bioethicists use to think through complex problems. In this episode Prof Doug Diekema explains the origins of the Harm Principle and how it sets a threshold for state intervention when children risk being harmed. Prof Diekema outlines the necessary conditions that must be met under the Harm Principle. Host: Prof John Massie, Clinical Director, Children’s Bioethics Centre, RCH.

Guest: Prof Doug Diekema, Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, University of Washington.