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UNINA9910782568403321 |
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Lynch Holly Fernandez |
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Titolo |
Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise / / by Holly Fernandez Lynch |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-27872-3 |
1-4356-8144-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvi, 345 p.) : ill |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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