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



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Autore: Lynch Holly Fernandez Visualizza persona
Titolo: Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise / / by Holly Fernandez Lynch Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-262-27872-3
1-4356-8144-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910822301503321
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Serie: Basic bioethics.