{"id":9675,"date":"2019-09-01T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9675"},"modified":"2023-01-28T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T02:41:35","slug":"medical-acts-and-conscientious-objection-what-can-a-physician-be-compelled-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9675","title":{"rendered":"Medical Acts and Conscientious Objection: What Can a Physician be Compelled to Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nathan K. Gamble, Michal Pruski<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"158\" height=\"230\" src=\"http:\/\/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>A key question has been underexplored in the literature on conscientious objection: if a physician is required to perform \u2018medical activities,\u2019 what is a medical activity? This paper explores the question by employing a teleological evaluation of medicine and examining the analogy of military conscripts, commonly cited in the conscientious objection debate. It argues that physicians (and other healthcare professionals) can only be expected to perform and support <em>medical<\/em> acts \u2013 acts directed towards their patients\u2019 health. That is, physicians cannot be forced to provide or support services that are not medical in nature, even if such activities support other socially desirable pursuits. This does not necessarily mean that medical professionals cannot or should not provide non-medical services, but only that they are under no <em>obligation<\/em> to provide them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gamble NK, Pruski M.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/20502877.2019.1649871\">Medical Acts and Conscientious Objection: What Can a Physician be Compelled to Do?<\/a> New Bioethics 2019 Sep; 25(3): 262-282. DOI:10.1080\/20502877.2019.1649871<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan K. Gamble, Michal Pruski AbstractA key question has been underexplored in the literature on conscientious objection: if a physician is required to perform \u2018medical activities,\u2019 what is a medical activity? This paper explores the question by employing a teleological evaluation of medicine and examining the analogy of military conscripts, commonly cited in the conscientious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=9675\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medical Acts and Conscientious Objection: What Can a Physician be Compelled to Do?&#8221;<\/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":[554,2],"tags":[263,1660,1238],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-9675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-journal-article","tag-michal-pruski","tag-military-analogy","tag-nathan-k-gamble"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>Medical Acts and Conscientious Objection: What Can a Physician be Compelled to Do? - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If a physician is required to perform \u2018medical activities,\u2019 what is a medical activity? 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