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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lynch, Holly Fernandez.

Series:

Basic bioethics.

Basic bioethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refusal to treat--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Refusal to treat.

Physician and patient--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Physician and patient.

Physicians--Professional ethics--United States.

Physicians.

Medical laws and legislation--United States.

Medical laws and legislation.

Conscience--United States.

Conscience.

Medical ethics--United States.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 345 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : MIT Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-27872-3

1-4356-8144-4

OCLC:

283798183