In defence of medical tribunals and the reasonability standard for conscientious objection in medicine

Robert F Card

Journal of Medical Ethics
Journal of Medical Ethics

Extract
Cowley has recently objected to the idea of using a medical tribunal to make determinations regarding conscientious objections and has criticised using reasonability as a standard for any such tribunal. . . . I argue that Cowley’s discussion sells the idea of medical tribunals short and illustrates serious misunderstandings regarding how the reasonability standard should be deployed in practice.


Card RF. In defence of medical tribunals and the reasonability standard for conscientious objection in medicine. J Med Ethics 2016 Feb;42(2):73-5. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2015-103037

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