Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lynch, Holly Fernandez
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
Colección:Basic bioethics.
Temas:
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.
Health facilities.
Medical ethics.
Health services accessibility.
Conscience.
Health Facilities
Ethics, Medical
Refusal to Treat > ethics
Health Services Accessibility
Refusal to Treat > legislation & jurisprudence
Conscience
Relations médecin-patient > Aspect moral > États-Unis.
Éthique médicale > États-Unis.
Conscience (Morale) > États-Unis.
Équipements sanitaires.
Éthique médicale.
Services de santé > Accessibilité.
Conscience (Morale)
health facilities.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biology.
Health services accessibility
Health facilities
Medical ethics
Medical laws and legislation
Physician and patient > Moral and ethical aspects
Physicians > Professional ethics
Refusal to treat > Moral and ethical aspects
United States
PHILOSOPHY/Ethics & Bioethics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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