Conflicts of Conscience in Health Care: An Institutional Compromise

by Holly Fernandez Lynch

Book Overview

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.

Physicians in the United States who refuse to perform a variety of legally permissible medical services because of their own moral objections are often protected by "conscience clauses." These laws, on the books in nearly every state since the legalization of abortion by Roe v...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262515059
• ISBN13: 9780262515054
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher