Leveling ‘lopsided law’: Dov Fox on Conscience in Health Care and Medical Practice

Описание: In his new book “The Conscience of Care: Navigating Health in the Culture Wars,” Dov Fox, Herzog Research Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and founding director of USD's Center for Health Law Policy & Bioethics, 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 I. Glenn Cohen ’03, faculty director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Fox considers how the law is set up to protect conscientious refusers more than conscientious providers and proposes practical reforms that rebalance conscience protection by introducing measured safeguards for providers and scaling back the categorical refuge afforded to refusers.

0:00 Intro by Susannah Baruch
3:34 Dov Fox remarks
34:51 Discussion with I. Glenn Cohen
50:39 Q&A

Learn more about the Petrie-Flom Center: https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/

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