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

• Autore: Lynch Holly Fernandez
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, : MIT Press, c2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 345 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 174.2
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Conflicts of conscience in health care
• ISBN: 0-262-27872-3; 1-4356-8144-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822301503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Basic bioethics.