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• Title:Conflicts of conscience in health care : an institutional compromise / Holly Fernandez Lynch.
  
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• Author/Creator:Lynch, Holly Fernandez.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W50 .L987 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Refusal to treat--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
  Physician and patient--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
  Physicians--Professional ethics--United States.
  Medical laws and legislation--United States.
  Conscience--United States.
  Medical ethics--United States.
  
• Medical Subjects: Ethics, Medical--United States.
  Refusal to Treat--ethics--United States.
  Conscience--United States.
  Health Facilities--United States.
  Health Services Accessibility--United States.
  Refusal to Treat--legislation & jurisprudence--United States.
  
• Description:xvi, 346 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:Basic bioethics.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-334) and index.
  
• ISBN:0262123053 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780262123051 (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:I. Conscience clauses and professionalism
  1. primer on conscience clauses
  2. Defining medical professionalism
  II. Protecting doctors and patients : an institutional solution
  3. Moral diversity in medicine and the ideal of doctor-patient matching
  4. Which institution? : licensing boards bearing the burdens of conscience and access
  III. details of the institutional solution
  5. Measuring patient demand and determining which demands to meet
  6. Measuring physician supply and limiting the grounds for physician refusal
  7. Calibrating supply and demand
  8. "hard" cases : when the institutional solution fails
  9. Physician obligations and sacrifices
  10. Addressing skeptics, a model statute, and conclusions
  App. Statutes, regulations, and case law.