Adjudicating rights or analyzing interests: Ethicists' role in the debate over conscience in clinical practice
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 29 (3):201-212 (2008)
| Abstract | The analysis of a dispute can focus on either interests, rights, or power. Commentators often frame the conflict over conscience in clinical practice as a dispute between a patient’s right to legally available medical treatment and a clinician’s right to refuse to provide interventions the clinician finds morally objectionable. Multiple sources of unresolvable moral disagreement make resolution in these terms unlikely. One should instead focus on the parties’ interests and the different ways in which the health care delivery system can accommodate them. In the specific case of pharmacists refusing to dispense emergency contraception, alternative systems such as advanced prescription, pharmacist provision, and over-the-counter sales may better reconcile the client’s interest in preventing unintended pregnancy and the pharmacist’s interest in not contravening his or her conscience. Within such an analysis, the ethicist’s role becomes identifying and clarifying the parties’ morally relevant interests. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,664 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesMark R. Wicclair (2011). Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis. Cambridge University Press.
Donnie J. Self & Joy D. Skeel (1986). Potential Roles of the Medical Ethicist in the Clinical Setting. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 7 (1).
S. Stewart Braun (2010). Historical Entitlement and the Practice of Bequest: Is There a Moral Right of Bequest? Law and Philosophy 29 (6):695-715.
Zuzana Deans (2013). Conscientious Objections in Pharmacy Practice in Great Britain. Bioethics 27 (1):48-57.
J. Paul Kelleher (2010). Emergency Contraception and Conscientious Objection. Journal of Applied Philosophy 27 (3):290-304.
Norbert L. Steinkamp Bert Gordijn Henk A. M. J. ten Have (2008). Debating Ethical Expertise. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 18 (2):pp. 173-192.
Ryan E. Lawrence & Farr A. Curlin (2007). Clash of Definitions: Controversies About Conscience in Medicine. American Journal of Bioethics 7 (12):10 – 14.
Gregory T. Lyon-Loftus (1986). What is a Clinical Ethicist? Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 7 (1).
Roy G. Spece, David S. Shimm & Allen E. Buchanan (eds.) (1996). Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice and Research. Oxford University Press.
John J. Hardt (2008). The Conscience Debate: Resources for Rapprochement From the Problem's Perceived Source. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 29 (3):151-160.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads10 ( #106,196 of 549,010 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,261 of 549,010 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
