Journal article
Doctors have no right to refuse medical assistance in dying, abortion or contraception
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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 relatio...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1111/bioe.12288
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Bioethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 162–170
- Publication date:
- 2016-09-22
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1467-8519
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:653030
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uuid:024f2da3-5126-4d9d-b795-2a6f61b3c65e
- Local pid:
- pubs:653030
- Deposit date:
- 2016-10-26
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- Copyright holder:
- Savulescu and Schuklenk
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2016 The Authors Bioethics Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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