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Rethinking conscientious objection in health care
Published 2025“…The book provides an argument against a right to conscientious objection by health care professionals. In increasingly multicultural societies inspired by pluralism, and given the range of controversial medical procedures that are or will be legal in many countries, claims about health care professionals’ right to abide by their own moral or religious views in the exercise of their profession become more frequent. …”
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What is special about conscientious objection?
Published 2022“…But for conscientious objections to succeed in justifying exempting objectors from complying with the regulation, the suffering caused by forcing compliance must outweigh the suffering produced by exempting them from compliance. …”
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Conscientious Objection Before the Indonesian Constitutional Court
Published 2022“…This research further maintains that the Constitutional Court should recognize the existence of conscientious objection as an inherent human right, as a form of judicial activism. …”
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Conscientious objection and compromising the patient: Response to Hughes
Published 2018“…Hughes offers a consequentialist response to our rejection of accommodation of conscientious objection in medicine. We argue here that his compromise proposition has been tried in many jurisdictions and has failed to deliver unimpeded access to care for eligible patients. …”
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Conscientious objection in healthcare, referral and the military analogy
Published 2016“…In this paper, I consider an aspect of this analogy that has not, to my knowledge, been considered in debates about conscientious objection in healthcare. In the USA and elsewhere, tribunals have been tasked with the responsibility of recommending particular forms of alternative service for conscientious objectors. …”
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Public reason in justifications of conscientious objection in health care
Published 2019“…Current mainstream approaches to conscientious objection either uphold the standards of public health care by preventing objections or protect the consciences of health‐care professionals by accommodating objections. …”
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Guest Editorial: Conscientious Objection in Healthcare: Problems and Perspectives.
Published 2016“…Conscientious objection in healthcare is the refusal by healthcare professionals (HCPs) to provide certain medical services on the basis of moral or religious beliefs. …”
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Conscientious objection in healthcare: pinning down the reasonability view
Published 2020“…Robert Card’s “Reasonability View” is a significant contribution to the debate over the place of conscientious objection in health care. In his view, conscientious objections can only be accommodated if the grounds for the objection meet a reasonability standard. …”
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Beyond money: conscientious objection in medicine as a conflict of interests
Published 2020“…Here, we will focus on health practitioners’ moral or religious values as particular types of personal interests involved in health care delivery that can generate COI, and on conscientious objection in health care as a form of management of that COI. …”
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Conscientious objection in healthcare: neither a negative nor a positive right
Published 2020“…Conscientious objection in healthcare is often granted by many legislations regulating morally controversial medical procedures, such as abortion or medical assistance in dying. …”
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Conscientious objection, conflicts of interests, and choosing the right analogies: a reply to Pruski
Published 2021“…In this response paper, we respond to the criticisms that Michal Pruski raised against our article “Beyond Money: Conscientious Objection in Medicine as a Conflict of Interests.” …”
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Discriminatory conscientious objections in healthcare: A response to Ancell and Sinnott-Armstrong
Published 2019“…A&SA; defend three claims: (i) many conscientious objections in healthcare are morally permissible and should be lawful, (ii) conscientious objections that involve invidious discrimination are morally impermissible, but (iii) even invidiously-discriminatory conscientious objections should not always be unlawful, as there is a better way to protect patient rights. …”
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Conscientious objection in healthcare: How much discretionary space best supports good medicine?
Published 2018“…Sulmasy also claims that those who would reject physicians’ right to conscientious objection eliminate discretionary space, thus undermining good medicine and unnecessarily limiting religious freedom. …”
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Should pharmacists be allowed to conscientiously object to medicines supply on the basis of their personal beliefs?
Published 2018“…But should the healthcare professional have their own moral and religious beliefs that conflict with the patient, conscientious objection allows the professional to opt out of treatment.…”
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Professional obligations and the demandingness of acting against one’s conscience
Published 2024“…<p>Conscience is typically invoked in healthcare to defend a right to conscientious objection, that is the refusal by healthcare professionals to perform certain activities in the name of personal moral or religious views. …”
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