Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise / by Holly Fernandez Lynch.
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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Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2008.
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Series: | Basic bioethics.
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Table of 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.