ArticleCambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees2017
The Cost of Conscience.
Article in Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Spirituality and Religiosity of Internal Medicine Physicians in the USA: Results from a National Survey.Journal of general internal medicine · 2026Article
- Conscience at the End of Life.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Review
- A gap between the philosophy and the practice of palliative healthcare: sociological perspectives on the practice of nurses in specialised palliative homecare.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2020Article
- Refusal to Treat Patients Does Not Work in Any Country-Even If Misleadingly Labeled "Conscientious Objection".Health and human rights · 2017Article
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Abstract
The spread of demands by physicians and allied health professionals for accommodation of their private ethical, usually religiously based, objections to providing care of a particular type, or to a particular class of persons, suggests the need for a re-evaluation of conscientious objection in healthcare and how it should be regulated. I argue on Kantian grounds that respect for conscience and protection of freedom of conscience is consistent with fairly stringent limitations and regulations governing refusal of service in healthcare settings. Respect for conscience does not entail that refusal of service should be cost free to the objector. I suggest that conscientious objection in medicine should be conceptualized and treated analogously to civil disobedience.
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