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Conscience, conscientious objections, and medicine
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics ( IF 2.158 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-04 , DOI: 10.1007/s11017-019-09513-9
Rosamond Rhodes

To inform the ongoing discussion of whether claims of conscientious objection allow medical professionals to refuse to perform tasks that would otherwise be their duty, this paper begins with a review of the philosophical literature that describes conscience as either a moral sense or the dictate of reason. Even though authors have starkly different views on what conscience is, advocates of both approaches agree that conscience should be obeyed and that keeping promises is a conscience-given moral imperative. The paper then considers exemplars of conscientious objection—Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.—to identify the critical feature of conscientious objection as willingness to bear the burdens of one’s convictions. It concludes by showing that medical professionals who put their own interests before their patients’ welfare violate their previous commitments and misappropriate the title “conscientious objector” because they are unwilling to bear the burdens of their choices and instead impose burdens on their patients and colleagues.

中文翻译:

良心,良心拒服兵役和药物

为了使有关出于良心拒服兵役的主张是否允许医疗专业人员拒绝执行本应作为其职责的任务的讨论不断进行,本文首先回顾了将良心描述为道德意义或理性决定的哲学文献。即使作者对良心是什么有截然不同的看法,但两种方法的倡导者都同意应遵守良心,信守诺言是出于良心的道德要求。然后,本文考虑了出于良心拒服兵役的典范-亨利·大卫·梭罗(Henry David Thoreau),莫汉达斯·甘地(Mohandas Gandhi)和小马丁·路德·金(Martin Luther King Jr.),以确定出于良心拒服兵役者愿意承担定罪负担的关键特征。
更新日期:2019-12-04
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