title: The physician's conscience, conscience clauses, and religious belief: a Catholic perspective.
authors.affiliation: Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Edmund D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Pellegrino
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D002410:Catholicism; D028661:Complicity; D003242:Conscience; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003709:Democracy; D030881:Disclosure / Q000941:ethics; D028781:Ethical Relativism; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D016519:Hospitals, Religious / Q000941:ethics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D010820:Physicians / Q000941:ethics*; D011640:Public Policy; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D045808:Refusal to Participate / Q000941:ethics*; D016079:Refusal to Treat / Q000941:ethics*; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D035621:Secularism