Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise /

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

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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.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Lynch, Holly Fernandez
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series:Basic bioethics.
Subjects:
Refusal to treat > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Physician and patient > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Physicians > Professional ethics > United States.
Medical laws and legislation > United States.
Conscience > United States.
Medical ethics > United States.
Health facilities.
Medical ethics.
Health services accessibility.
Conscience.
Medical laws and legislation.
Physician and patient > Moral and ethical aspects.
Physicians > Professional ethics.
Refusal to treat > Moral and ethical aspects.
United States.
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.

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