{"id":9668,"date":"2019-09-01T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9668"},"modified":"2023-01-22T14:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T22:50:10","slug":"is-conscientious-objection-incompatible-with-healthcare-professionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9668","title":{"rendered":"Is conscientious objection incompatible with healthcare professionalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mary Neal, Sara Fovargue<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"158\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/new-bioethics.jpg\" alt=\"The New Bioethics\" class=\"wp-image-10167\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The New Bioethics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>Is conscientious objection (CO) necessarily incompatible with the role and duties of a healthcare professional? An influential minority of writers on the subject think that it is. Here, we outline the positive case for accommodating CO and examine one particular type of incompatibility claim, namely that CO is fundamentally incompatible with proper healthcare professionalism because the attitude of the conscientious objector exists in opposition to the disposition (attitudes and underlying character) that we should expect from a \u2018good\u2019 healthcare professional. We ask first whether this claim is true <em>in principle<\/em>: what is the disposition of a \u2018good\u2019 healthcare professional, and how does CO align with or contradict it? Then, we consider <em>practical<\/em> compatibility, acknowledging the need to identify appropriate limits on the exercise of CO and considering what those limits might be. We conclude that CO is <em>not<\/em> fundamentally incompatible \u2013 either in principle <em>or<\/em> in  practice \u2013 with good healthcare professionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p> Neal M, Fovargue S.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/20502877.2019.1651935\">Is conscientious objection incompatible with healthcare professionalism?<\/a> New Bioethics 2019 Sep; 25(3): 221-235, DOI:10.1080\/20502877.2019.1651935.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Neal, Sara Fovargue AbstractIs conscientious objection (CO) necessarily incompatible with the role and duties of a healthcare professional? An influential minority of writers on the subject think that it is. 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