
Contemporary Challenges to Conscience
Legal and Ethical Frameworks for Professional Conduct
Aleksander Stepkowski(Editor)
Peter Lang Verlag
1st Edition
Published on 31. July 2019
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-3-631-77555-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a collection of studies addressing the complex and sensitive issue of conscientious objection. It has become utmost controversial, especially in relation to professional conduct in healthcare service. Moral dilemmas of physicians, being always a part of human existence, due to the development of public health insurance, became also a political issue with legal consequences. The book provides an in-depth analysis of this complex issue from a multidisciplinary perspective, including philosophical, political, legal and medical aspects. It also presents various experiences of different medical and legal professionals in this field.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
1
1 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
498 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-77555-4 (9783631775554)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Aleksander Stepkowski is a professor of law and the Head of the Chair of the Sociology of Law at the University of Warsaw, holding PhD and habilitation in legal science. His research concentrates on private and public comparative law as well as interrelations between philosophy, society and the legal culture.
Content
Contemporary dispute over the conscientious objection - Philosophical and constitutional background - Freedom of conscience - Conscientious objection and the inner goals of medicine - Conscientious objection in International law