The New Conscientious Objection

The New Conscientious Objection
Author: Charles C. Moskos
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 297
Release: 1993
Genre: Conscientious objection
ISBN: 0195079558

This study examines the changing motives and patterns of conscientious objection as well as state policies toward objectors in the Western world.

Conscientious Objection in Health Care

Conscientious Objection in Health Care
Author: Mark R. Wicclair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2011-05-26
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139500198

Historically associated with military service, conscientious objection has become a significant phenomenon in health care. Mark Wicclair offers a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in three representative health care professions: medicine, nursing and pharmacy. He critically examines two extreme positions: the 'incompatibility thesis', that it is contrary to the professional obligations of practitioners to refuse provision of any service within the scope of their professional competence; and 'conscience absolutism', that they should be exempted from performing any action contrary to their conscience. He argues for a compromise approach that accommodates conscience-based refusals within the limits of specified ethical constraints. He also explores conscientious objection by students in each of the three professions, discusses conscience protection legislation and conscience-based refusals by pharmacies and hospitals, and analyzes several cases. His book is a valuable resource for scholars, professionals, trainees, students, and anyone interested in this increasingly important aspect of health care.

Conscientious Objection

Conscientious Objection
Author: Özgür Heval Çınar
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-07-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1848136323

Refusing to take part in war is as old as war itself. This wide-ranging and original book brings together four different bodies of knowledge to examine the practice of conscientious objection: historical and philosophical analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of compulsory military service and militarization; feminist, LGBT and queer analyses of conscientious objection as a critique of patriarchy, sexism, and heterosexism; activist and academic analyses of conscientious objection as a social movement and individual act of resistance; legal analyses of the status of conscientious objection in international and national law. Conscientious objection is an increasingly important subject of academic and political debate in countries including the US, Israel and Turkey. This book provides a much needed introduction and tool for making sense of the history of nation-states in the 20th century and understanding the political developments of the early 21st century.

Conscientious Objections

Conscientious Objections
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2011-06-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307797317

In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone watches the same television programs -- and television producers don't discriminate between the audiences for Sesame Street and Dynasty -- is childhood anything more than a sentimental concept? Writing in the traditions of Orwell and H.L. Mencken, Neil Postman sends shock waves of wit and critical intelligence through the cultural wasteland.

Conscience and Conscientious Objections

Conscience and Conscientious Objections
Author: Anders Schinkel
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9085553911

In Western countries conscientious objection is usually accommodated in various ways, at least in certain areas (military conscription, medicine) and to some extent. It appears to be regarded as fundamentally different from other kinds of objection. But why? This study argues that conscientious objection cannot be understood as long as conscience is misunderstood. The author provides a new interpretation of the historical development of expressions of conscience and thought on the subject, and offers a new approach to conscientious objection rooted in the symbol-approach to conscience.

When Soldiers Say No

When Soldiers Say No
Author: Dr Andrea Ellner
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2014-02-28
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1472412168

Traditionally few people challenged the distinction between absolute and selective conscientious objection by those being asked to carry out military duties. The former is an objection to fighting all wars - a position generally respected and accommodated by democratic states, while the latter is an objection to a specific war or conflict - theoretically and practically a much harder idea to accept and embrace for military institutions. However, a decade of conflict not clearly aligned to vital national interests combined with recent acts of selective conscientious objection by members of the military have led some to reappraise the situation and argue that selective conscientious objection ought to be legally recognised and permitted. Political, social and philosophical factors lie behind this new interest which together mean that the time is ripe for a fresh and thorough evaluation of the topic. This book brings together arguments for and against selective conscientious objection, as well as case studies examining how different countries deal with those who claim the status of selective conscientious objectors. As such, it sheds new light on a topic of increasing importance to those concerned with military ethics and public policy, within military institutions, government, and academia.

A New Theory of Conscientious Objection in Medicine

A New Theory of Conscientious Objection in Medicine
Author: Robert F. Card
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2020-04-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000066959

This book argues that a conscientiously objecting medical professional should receive an exemption only if the grounds of an objector’s refusal are reasonable. It defends a detailed, contextual account of public reasonability suited for healthcare, which builds from the overarching concept of Rawlsian public reason. The author analyzes the main competing positions and maintains that these other views fail precisely due to their systematic inattention to the grounding reasons behind a conscientious objection; he argues that any such view is plausible to the extent that it mimics the ‘reason-giving requirement’ for conscience objections defended in this work. Only reasonable objections can defeat the prior professional obligation to assign primacy to patient well-being, therefore one who refuses a patient’s request for a legally available, medically indicated, and safe service must be able to explain the grounds of their objection in terms understandable to other citizens within the public institutional structure of medicine. The book further offers a novel policy proposal to deploy the Reasonability View: establishing conscientious objector status in medicine. It concludes that the Reasonability View is a viable and attractive position in this debate. A New Theory of Conscientious Objection in Medicine: Justification and Reasonability will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in bioethics, medical ethics, and philosophy of medicine, as well as thinkers interested in the intersections between law, medical humanities, and philosophy.

International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders

International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders
Author: Hitomi Takemura
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2008-12-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3540705279

International human rights law grants individuals both rights and responsibilities. In this respect international criminal and international humanitarian law are no different. As members of the public international law family they are charged with the regulation, maintenance and protection of human dignity. The right and duty to disobey manifestly illegal orders traverses these three schools of public international law. This book is the first systematic study of the right to conscientious objection under international human rights law. Understanding that rights and duties are not mutually exclusive but complementary, this study analyses the right to conscientious objection and the duties of individuals under international law from various perspectives of public international law.

A General Right to Conscientious Exemption

A General Right to Conscientious Exemption
Author: John Adenitire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2020-07-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110847845X

A sustained argument that a general right to conscientious exemption should be equally available to religious and non-religious objectors alike.