ArticleBioethics2017
Doctors Have no Right to Refuse Medical Assistance in Dying, Abortion or Contraception.
Article in Bioethics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Building Moral Community in an Age of Polarization: A Model for Reconciling Rights of Conscience in Healthcare Organizations.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Article
- Do not harm: a minimal defense of conscientious objection in the medical profession.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2026Article
- Taking the Right to Die Seriously.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2026Article
- The Fiduciary Argument Against Conscientious Refusal in Healthcare.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Article
- Is it ethically permissible for GPs to promote non-directed altruistic kidney donation to healthy adults?Journal of medical ethics · 2026Article
- Ethical perspectives of obstetricians and gynecologists on induced abortion and conscientious objection in Türkiye: a phenomenological study.BMC medical ethics · 2026Article
- Professional obligations and the demandingness of acting against one's conscience.Journal of medical ethics · 2025Article
- Review
- Conscientious objection: a global health perspective.BMJ global health · 2024Article
- Democratizing Conscientious Refusal in Healthcare.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2024Article
- Conscientious commitment, professional obligations and abortion provision after the reversal ofJournal of medical ethics · 2024Article
- Guidelines for conscientious objection in Spain: a proposal involving prerequisites and protocolized procedure.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2024Article
- Three Arguments Against Institutional Conscientious Objection, and Why They Are (Metaphysically) Unconvincing.The Journal of medicine and philosophy · 2024Article
- Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: The Requirement of Justification, The Moral Threshold, and Military Refusals.The Journal of religious ethics · 2024Article
- Contemplating the Impacts of Canadian Healthcare Institutions That Refuse to Provide Medical Assistance in Dying: A Framework-Based Discussion of Potential Health Access Implications.The American journal of hospice & palliative care · 2023Article
- Perceptions and experiences of female nurses when confronted with expressing a conscientious objection towards end-of-life care in Greece.BMC nursing · 2023Article
- Institutional Resistance to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Arguments and Realities Emerging in the Public Domain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Conscientious Objection and Other Motivations for Refusal to Treat in Hastened Death: A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Development of the Inclination Toward Conscientious Objection Scale for Physicians.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2023Article
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Abstract
In an article in this journal, Christopher Cowley argues that we have 'misunderstood the special nature of medicine, and have misunderstood the motivations of the conscientious objectors'. We have not. It is Cowley who has misunderstood the role of personal values in the profession of medicine. We argue that there should be better protections for patients from doctors' personal values and there should be more severe restrictions on the right to conscientious objection, particularly in relation to assisted dying. We argue that eligible patients could be guaranteed access to medical services that are subject to conscientious objections by: (1) removing a right to conscientious objection; (2) selecting candidates into relevant medical specialities or general practice who do not have objections; (3) demonopolizing the provision of these services away from the medical profession.
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