I know there has been several, I seem to remember a few years ago, either UK/Ireland an Irish mother who refused to allow sex education in school /contraceptive advice etc for her daughters and went to court over it and lost, she was on every TV show and in the newspapers and her objection was religious Ireland , abortion is illegal and so thousands of girls/young women travel to the UK annually and have abortions legally in secret I googled "medical ethics parents refuse treatment" and came up with links like this which may help you http://ministryofethics.co.uk/?p=7 http://adc.bmj.com/content/90/7/715.full http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/ethical_g... http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2003/08/ccas1-0308.html http://cet.sagepub.com/content/8/2-3/52.abstract http://www.law.leeds.ac.uk/assets/files/research/cfig/Young-People-who-Refuse-Life-Sustaining-Treatment-Briefing-Paper.pdf.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.