{"id":13130,"date":"2008-08-27T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T06:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13130"},"modified":"2023-01-28T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T23:57:27","slug":"conscience-and-clinical-practice-medical-ethics-in-the-face-of-moral-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=13130","title":{"rendered":"Conscience and clinical practice: Medical ethics in the face of moral controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Farr A Curlin<\/h4>\n\n\n
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Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Abstract<\/strong>
Physicians sometimes refuse to provide legally permitted medical services on the grounds that they cannot do so in good conscience. Such conscientious refusals are at least as old as the Hippocratic movement. Yet new events, such as the refusal by health care professionals to prescribe or dispense post-coital (\u2018\u2018emergency\u2019\u2019) contraception, have kindled new debates about what physicians are obligated to do when patients request legal medical interventions to which their physicians have moral objections. In a recent national survey, we found that a large majority of physicians believe they are obligated in such circumstances to present all possible options to the patient, including information about obtaining the requested intervention, and to refer the patient to a clinician who does not object to the requested intervention. Yet a substantial minority of physicians\u2014particularly those who are more religious and\/or who themselves object to common controversial practices\u2014disagree with these majority opinions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curlin FA. Conscience and clinical practice: Medical ethics in the face of moral controversy<\/a>. Theor Med Bioeth. 2008;29(3):129-133. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Farr A Curlin AbstractPhysicians sometimes refuse to provide legally permitted medical services on the grounds that they cannot do so in good conscience. Such conscientious refusals are at least as old as the Hippocratic movement. Yet new events, such as the refusal by health care professionals to prescribe or dispense post-coital (\u2018\u2018emergency\u2019\u2019) contraception, have kindled … Continue reading “Conscience and clinical practice: Medical ethics in the face of moral controversy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[554,876,2,64,1646],"tags":[1315],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-hippocratic-oath","category-journal-article","category-morning-after-pill","category-referral","tag-farr-a-curlin"],"yoast_head":"\r\nConscience and clinical practice: Medical ethics in the face of moral controversy - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A substantial minority of physicians disagree with 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