In his new book The Conscience of Care\, Dov Fox explores the concept of medical conscience through controversies around health care services like IVF\, IUD s\, opioids\, gender affirming care\, psychedelics\, organ transplants\, an d advance directives.
“We’re used to heari ng about conscientious refusers: physicians and pharmacists whose moral convictions lead them to deny a range of treatments that they deem si nful or wrong\,” Fox writes. “Less familiar in public discourse are those m edical professionals who have weighty reasons of their own for supplying tr eatment in ways that state law or institutional policy forbids. Call them c onscientious providers.”
In conve rsation 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 o ne-hour\, lunchtime discussion at Harvard Law School. Lunch will be provide d to registered attendees. This event is open to HUID holders only.
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