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Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise / by Holly Fernandez Lynch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Basic bioethicsPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 345 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262278720
  • 0262278723
  • 9781435681446
  • 1435681444
  • 9780262515054
  • 0262515059
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Conflicts of conscience in health care.DDC classification:
  • 174.2 22
LOC classification:
  • R727.36 .L96 2008eb
NLM classification:
  • W 50
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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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.

English.

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