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Voluntarily chosen roles and conscientious objection in health care
- Source :
- Journal of medical ethics.
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- The longstanding dominant view is that health care practitioners should be permitted to refrain from participating in medical interventions when they have a conscientious objection to doing so in a broad range of cases. In recent years, a growing minority have been fervently advocating a sea change. In their view, medical professionals should not be permitted to refuse to participate in medical interventions merely because doing so conflicts with their own moral or religious views. One of the most commonly offered arguments in support of this position focuses on the fact that health care practitioners knew what they were getting into when they voluntarily chose to take on their professional roles; nobody forced them to do this. I will argue that, despite its popularity among opponents of conscientious refusal, this argument from voluntariness fails to provide us with a good reason to reject broad accommodationism in favour of non-accommodationism.
- Subjects :
- Health (social science)
business.industry
Health Policy
Conscientious objector
Psychological intervention
06 humanities and the arts
Voluntariness
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
nobody
Popularity
humanities
03 medical and health sciences
Issues, ethics and legal aspects
0302 clinical medicine
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Argument
Law
Health care
Position (finance)
060301 applied ethics
030212 general & internal medicine
business
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14734257
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of medical ethics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....71e6bbc74b08c0e61c5d531660852574