Conscience and conscientious objection in health care

医疗专业人员有时拒绝提供特定形式的安全、有益和合法的保健服务，理由是这样做违背了他们的良心。生物伦理学家和政策制定者未能确定在医疗保健中对良心反对的上诉范围的合法限制。这在很大程度上是因为“良心”的基本概念不明确。该项目旨在通过对良心进行哲学和心理上的分析，并将其应用于关于医疗保健中良心反对的合法限制的讨论，从而推动生物伦理辩论。预计将产生学术和非学术出版物，并有助于改进澳大利亚的保健政策。

Medical professionals sometimes decline to provide particular forms of safe, beneficial and legal health care, on the grounds that provision would go against their consciences. Bioethicists and policy makers have failed to identify legitimate limits to the scope of appeals to conscientious objection in health care. This is in large part because the underlying concept ''conscience" is unclear. This project aims to advance bioethical debate by producing a philosophically and psychologically informed analysis of conscience, and by applying this to discussions about the legitimate limits to conscientious objection in health care. It is expected to result in academic and non-academic publications and enable improvements to Australian health care policy.