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

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
	©2008

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 345 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Basic bioethics
	Basic bioethics.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Summary	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.
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Subject	Refusal to treat -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
	Refusal to treat -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	United States.
	Physician and patient -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States.
	Physician and patient -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	Physician and patient.
	Physicians -- Professional ethics -- United States.
	Physicians -- Professional ethics.
	Medical laws and legislation -- United States.
	Medical laws and legislation.
	Conscience -- United States.
	Conscience.
	Medical ethics -- United States.
	Medical ethics.
	Ethics, Medical.
	Refusal to Treat -- ethics.
	Conscience.
	Health Facilities.
	Health Services Accessibility.
	Refusal to Treat -- legislation & jurisprudence.
	United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Lynch, Holly Fernandez. Conflicts of conscience in health care. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008 9780262123051 0262123053 (DLC) 2008005529 (OCoLC)192042197
ISBN	9780262278720 (electronic book)
	0262278723 (electronic book)
	9781435681446 (electronic book)
	1435681444 (electronic book)
	9780262123051
	0262123053

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

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