Conflicts of conscience in health care an institutional compromise

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1. Verfasser: Lynch, Holly Fernandez (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press c2008
Schriftenreihe:Basic bioethics
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
A primer on conscience clauses -- Defining medical professionalism -- Moral diversity in medicine and the ideal of doctor-patient matching -- Which institution?: licensing boards bearing the burdens of conscience and access -- Measuring patient demand and determining which demands to meet -- Measuring physician supply and limiting the grounds for physician refusal -- Calibrating supply and demand -- The "hard" cases: when the institutional solution fails -- Physician obligations and sacrifices -- Addressing skeptics, a model statute, and conclusions
Holly Fernandez Lynch presents a balanced proposal that protects both a patient's access to care and a physician's ability to refuse to provide certain services for reasons of conscience
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 345 p.)
ISBN:0262278723
1435681444
9780262278720
9781435681446