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Conscientious Objection in Health Care - Mark R. Wicclair

Conscientious Objection in Health Care

An Ethical Analysis
Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2011
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-51431-6 (ISBN)
CHF 79,95 inkl. MwSt
This book provides a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in medicine, nursing and pharmacy, including discussions of conscience protection legislation and conscience-based refusals as well as several case studies. It is a valuable reference for scholars and students and anyone interested in this increasingly important aspect of health care.
Historically associated with military service, conscientious objection has become a significant phenomenon in health care. Mark Wicclair offers a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in three representative health care professions: medicine, nursing and pharmacy. He critically examines two extreme positions: the 'incompatibility thesis', that it is contrary to the professional obligations of practitioners to refuse provision of any service within the scope of their professional competence; and 'conscience absolutism', that they should be exempted from performing any action contrary to their conscience. He argues for a compromise approach that accommodates conscience-based refusals within the limits of specified ethical constraints. He also explores conscientious objection by students in each of the three professions, discusses conscience protection legislation and conscience-based refusals by pharmacies and hospitals, and analyzes several cases. His book is a valuable resource for scholars, professionals, trainees, students, and anyone interested in this increasingly important aspect of health care.

Mark R. Wicclair is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at West Virginia University and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Ethics and the Elderly (1993) and is on the editorial board of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics.

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Three approaches to conscientious objection in health care: conscience absolutism, the incompatibility thesis, and compromise; 3. Ethical limitations on the exercise of conscience; 4. Pharmacies, health care institutions, and conscientious objection; 5. Students, residents, and conscience-based exemptions; 6. Conscience clauses: too little and too much protection; References.

Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 235 mm
Gewicht 550 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Medizinethik
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 0-521-51431-2 / 0521514312
ISBN-13 978-0-521-51431-6 / 9780521514316
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