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  • Sociology of Medicine

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  • Diverse moral views exist regarding healthcare professionals' duties in procedures like abortion and physician-assisted suicide.
  • This moral diversity supports a liberal argument for conscientious objection (CO).
  • CO aims to balance professionals' moral integrity with patients' access to safe, lawful medical care.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To defend a moderate view on conscientious objection (CO).
  • To establish conditions for justifying CO claims based on reasonableness.
  • To explore the role of 'good medicine' conceptions in evaluating CO.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation and ethical analysis.
  • Examination of competing claims of moral integrity and patient rights.
  • Discussion of the physician's duty to inform and refer.

Main Results:

  • CO claims can be justified but require a reasonableness standard, rejecting both incompatibility and absolutism.
  • Conceptions of good medicine are crucial for discriminating CO claims.
  • The duty to inform and refer is not necessarily inconsistent with moral integrity.

Conclusions:

  • A moderate, reasonableness-based approach to CO is advocated.
  • This approach protects moral integrity while ensuring patient access to care.
  • Conditions for reasonable CO can mitigate negative consequences feared by critics.