What is it about?
This chapter in the Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare examines the nature and rise of secularism in Western medical healthcare and looks at how healthcare practitioners who raise conscientious objection fare in such a setting.
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Why is it important?
How to accommodate conscientious objection equitably is an increasingly pressing issue in states requiring medical involvement with execution or euthanasia by lethal injection and other areas involving the ending of life.
Perspectives
Increasing numbers of bioethicists are asserting that healthcare professionals who express conscientious objection to legal procedures should not be permitted to enter the profession or should leave it. This chapter explores how conscientious objectors are as important in medicine as in other areas of society and argues that healthcare services should offer reasonable accommodation for them.
Dr Trevor Stammers
St Mary's University
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This page is a summary of: Secularism, August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199571390.003.0013.
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