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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Holly Fernandez Lynch |
| ISBN: | 9780262515054 0262515059 9780262123051 0262123053 |
| OCLC Number: | 192042197 |
| Description: | xiv, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | Basic bioethics. |
| Responsibility: | by Holly Fernandez Lynch. |
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"Brilliant... This book is interdisciplinary bioethics as its finest." A. W. Kink Choice "Lynch's pragmatic approach is also innovative and refreshing in a policy arena that is often fraught with an overabundance of criticism with little substance on reform." Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya The Journal of Legal Medicine "Brilliant... This book is interdisciplinary bioethics as its finest." A. W. Kink Choice "[Lynch's] pragmatic approach is also innovative and refreshing in a policy arena that is often fraught with an overabundance of criticism with little substance on reform." Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya The Journal of Legal Medicine Read more...
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Freedom of conscience in health care considered
. . .As the subtitle of the book indicates, [the author] is seeking a compromise that will provide "maximal liberty for all parties." She believes that freedom of conscience for physicians and the provision of legal medical services are both important social goals, and that they...
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. . .As the subtitle of the book indicates, [the author] is seeking a compromise that will provide "maximal liberty for all parties." She believes that freedom of conscience for physicians and the provision of legal medical services are both important social goals, and that they are not incompatible. . . . quoting the Protection of Conscience Project, she affirms that all legitimate concerns can be met by "dialogue, prudent planning, and the exercise of tolerance, imagination and political will." . . .
For the complete review, vist the Protection of Conscience Project at http://www.consciencelaws.org/Examining-Conscience-Ethical/Ethical90.html
(Sean Murphy), Administrator
Protection of Conscience Project
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