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The conscience of care : navigating health in the culture wars / Dov Fox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fox, Dov, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--Law and legislation--United States.
- Medical care.
- Physicians--Professional ethics--United States.
- Physicians.
- Medical laws and legislation--United States.
- Medical laws and legislation.
- Medical ethics--United States.
- Medical ethics.
- Physician and patient--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Physician and patient.
- Conscience--United States.
- Conscience.
- Refusal to treat--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Refusal to treat.
- Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Abortion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- American law categorically protects clinicians who invoke conscience to refuse standard care, from Plan B to IVF. Yet clinicians enjoy no conscience protections when they offer prohibited care, as in states that restrict abortion. Dov Fox exposes the untenable logic of this lopsided system and argues for urgently needed reform.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- I. The Meaning of Conscience in Medicine
- II. The Creep of Conscientious Refusal
- III. The Scope of Conscientious Provision
- IV. The Case Against Conscience Asymmetry
- V. Institutional Conflicts of Conscience
- VI. Clinician Conscience Versus the State
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-30212-5
- 0-674-30213-3
- 9780674302136
- OCLC:
- 1528508482
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