Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise

Author(s)

• Lynch, Holly Fernandez

Bibliographic Information

Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise

by Holly Fernandez Lynch

（Basic bioethics series）

MIT Press, c2008

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BA87705100
• ISBN:
  • 9780262123051
• LCCN: 2008005529
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 346 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : R727.36
  • NLM : W 50
  • DC22 : 174.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Refusal to treat -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
  • LCSH : Physician and patient -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
  • LCSH : Physicians -- Professional ethics -- United States
  • LCSH : Medical laws and legislation -- United States
  • LCSH : Conscience -- United States
  • LCSH : Medical ethics -- United States
  • MESH : Ethics, Medical -- United States
  • MESH : Refusal to Treat -- ethics -- United States
  • MESH : Conscience -- United States
  • MESH : Health Facilities -- United States
  • MESH : Health Services Accessibility -- United States
  • MESH : Refusal to Treat -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA4498513X