Doctors Have no Right to Refuse Medical Assistance in Dying, Abortion or Contraception

In an article in this journal, Christopher Cowley argues that we have ‘misunderstood the special nature of medicine, and have misunderstood the motivations of the conscientious objectors’. We have not. It is Cowley who has misunderstood the role of personal values in the profession of medicine. We a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Bioethics Jg. 31; H. 3; S. 162 - 170
Hauptverfasser: Savulescu, Julian, Schuklenk, Udo
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2017
John Wiley and Sons Inc
Schlagworte:
Abortion
Abortion, Induced - ethics
Abortions
Assisted suicide
autonomy
Bioethics
Birth control
Candidates
Conscience
Conscientious objectors
Contraception
Contraception - ethics
Death & dying
Euthanasia
Female
General practice
Health services
Humans
interests
justice
law
Medical Assistance
Medical ethics
Medical personnel
Medicine
Original
Patients
Physicians
Physicians - ethics
Practitioner patient relationship
Pregnancy
professionalism
Refusal to Treat - ethics
Responsibilities
Social services delivery
Solid wastes
Values
autonomy
professionalism
euthanasia
justice
law
interests
ISSN:0269-9702, 1467-8519
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Zusammenfassung:In an article in this journal, Christopher Cowley argues that we have ‘misunderstood the special nature of medicine, and have misunderstood the motivations of the conscientious objectors’. We have not. It is Cowley who has misunderstood the role of personal values in the profession of medicine. We argue that there should be better protections for patients from doctors' personal values and there should be more severe restrictions on the right to conscientious objection, particularly in relation to assisted dying. We argue that eligible patients could be guaranteed access to medical services that are subject to conscientious objections by: (1) removing a right to conscientious objection; (2) selecting candidates into relevant medical specialities or general practice who do not have objections; (3) demonopolizing the provision of these services away from the medical profession.
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ISSN:0269-9702
1467-8519
DOI:10.1111/bioe.12288