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Chapter 24 - Conscientious Objection

from Section 3 - Policy Development and Organizational Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2022

By
Mark R. Wicclair
Edited by
D. Micah Hester  and
Toby L. Schonfeld
D. Micah Hester
Affiliation:
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine
Toby L. Schonfeld
Affiliation:
National Center for Ethics in Health Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs
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Summary

Healthcare ethics committee (HEC) members frequently are called upon to provide guidance pertaining to conscientious objection. This guidance can include case consultation, policy creation, and education. For HEC members to effectively perform these functions, they will need to understand when an objection to providing a medical service is a conscientious objection, reasons for accommodating conscientious objectors, the need for ethical constraints on accommodation, and the basics of institutional management of conscientious objection. These issues are addressed in this chapter.

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Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees , pp. 208 - 218
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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