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Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise
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Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise

Author: Holly Fernandez Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, ©2008.
Series: Basic bioethics.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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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 Read more...

 
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Freedom of conscience in health care considered

by Sean_Murphy (WorldCat user published 2009-12-17) Very Good Permalink

. . .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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