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Conscience and clinical practice: medical ethics in the face of moral controversy

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  1. The conference, Conscience and Clinical Practice: Medical Ethics in the Face of Moral Controversy, was held March 18, 2008 at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

  2. Susan Thistlethwaite’s paper, titled “Other People’s Consciences,” will be published in a future edition of Science Progress (www.scienceprogress.org).

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I am grateful to the Greenwall Foundation (NY, NY) and the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago for their financial support of the conference at which these papers were originally presented. In addition, I am indebted to Mark Siegler, John Lantos and Lainie Ross, whose counsel, leadership, and assistance made the conference, and this special issue of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, possible.

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Curlin, F.A. Conscience and clinical practice: medical ethics in the face of moral controversy. Theor Med Bioeth 29, 129–133 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-008-9071-3

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