Conflicts of conscience in health care
Subtitle: an institutional compromise
By: by Holly Fernandez Lynch.
Series: Basic bioethics
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780262123051
Subjects: 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; Ethics, Medical -- United States; Refusal to Treat -- ethics -- United States; Conscience -- United States; Health Facilities -- United States; Health Services Accessibility -- United States; Refusal to Treat -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A primer on conscience clauses; title: Defining medical professionalism; title: Moral diversity in medicine and the ideal of doctor-patient matching; title: Which institution?: licensing boards bearing the burdens of conscience and access; title: Measuring patient demand and determining which demands to meet; title: Measuring physician supply and limiting the grounds for physician refusal; title: Calibrating supply and demand; title: The "hard" cases: when the institutional solution fails; title: Physician obligations and sacrifices; title: Addressing skeptics, a model statute, and conclusions.