Conscience in Health Care: Dov Fox in Conversation With I. Glenn Cohen

In his new book The Conscience of Care, Dov Fox explores the concept of medical conscience through controversies around health care services like IVF, IUDs, opioids, gender affirming care, psychedelics, organ transplants, and advance directives.

“We’re used to hearing about conscientious refusers: physicians and pharmacists whose moral convictions lead them to deny a range of treatments that they deem sinful or wrong,” Fox writes. “Less familiar in public discourse are those medical professionals who have weighty reasons of their own for supplying treatment in ways that state law or institutional policy forbids. Call them conscientious providers.”

In conversation with Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, Fox will consider how the law is set up to protect conscientious refusers more than conscientious providers.

Join us for the one-hour, lunchtime discussion at Harvard Law School. Lunch will be provided to registered attendees. This event is open to HUID holders only.