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In this Royal Society of Edinburgh funded project, we have\u00a0established an inter-diciplinary, multi-jurisdictional Network of researchers and practitioners with an active interest in the issue of claims of conscience in healthcare and\u00a0a commitment to accommodating these claims in some circumstances. The aim of the Network is to explore persisting questions about the accommodation of conscience in the healthcare context. These include questions about the justification, role, parameters, and legal protection of claims of conscience in healthcare.<\/p>\n

There is a huge and growing academic literature on conscience in healthcare (and beyond), encompassing a wide diversity of views. Much of this literature reflects fundamental disagreement about whether claims of conscience should ever<\/em> be permitted and\/or protected in the healthcare context. While this debate is important, it is also important that intellectual space should exist within which those who broadly agree about the desirability of accommodating at least some<\/em>\u00a0claims of conscience, can explore fundamental questions and test new\/speculative arguments, against a background of shared basic premises.\u00a0ACoRN members agree the \u2018basic premise\u2019 that, for the purposes of the project at least, claims of conscience merit some<\/em>\u00a0form of legal protection in some<\/em> circumstances (though we may disagree about what form the protection should take, and what the relevant circumstances are).<\/p>\n

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In this Royal Society of Edinburgh funded project, we have\u00a0established an inter-diciplinary, multi-jurisdictional Network of researchers and practitioners with an active interest in the issue of claims of conscience in healthcare and\u00a0a commitment to accommodating these claims in some circumstances. The aim of the Network is to explore persisting questions about the accommodation of conscience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"nosidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9SLY9-9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/acorn\/links\/","url_meta":{"origin":9,"position":0},"title":"Links","author":"strongs","date":"May 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Relevant outputs by project team members M Neal, \u2018Conscientious Objection, \u201cProper Medical Treatment\u201d, and Professionalism: The Limits of Accommodation for Conscience in Healthcare\u2019 in J. Adenitire (ed) Religious Beliefs and Conscientious Exemptions in a Liberal State (Hart Publishing, 2019). 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