Conscientious objection in health care : an ethical analysis /
"The subject of this book is conscientious objection in health care and the principal aim is to provide an ethical analysis of conscience-based refusals by physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Before considering ethical issues, however, it is essential to understand what conscientious objection...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | "The subject of this book is conscientious objection in health care and the principal aim is to provide an ethical analysis of conscience-based refusals by physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Before considering ethical issues, however, it is essential to understand what conscientious objection is, which calls for conceptual analysis. A person engages in an act of conscientious objection when she refuses to perform an action, provide a service, and so forth on the grounds that doing so is against her conscience. In the context of health care, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists engage in acts of conscientious objection when they: 1) refuse to provide legal and professionally accepted goods or services that fall within the scope of their professional competence, and 2) justify their refusal by claiming that it is an act of conscience or is conscience-based"--Provided by publisher |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139101288 1139101285 9780511973727 0511973721 9781139100625 1139100629 9781139099264 1139099264 1139097288 9781139097284 1107215684 9781107215689 9786613306937 6613306932 1139103083 9781139103084 1139098594 9781139098595 |
